The true believers won’t stop until they’ve remade the world.

On the ubiquity of forest fires.

Tracking stolen firearms through the black market, from gun store thefts to crime scenes.

What science can tell us about how other creatures experience the world.

At the world’s largest gathering of psychics and mediums, two brothers confront a painful secret.

YouTubers Myka and James Stauffer shared every step of their parenting journey. Except the last.

The first interview with a key witness in Trump’s impeachment trial.

The new Delaware state senator is making history in her hometown.

Survivors of China’s campaign of persecution reveal the scope of the devastation.

Can neuroscience take the pain out of painful memories?

The rise and fall of the new oligarchs, who raided the Russian state. When Putin came to power most fled, but not Mikhail Khodorkovsky: “The other oligarchs, when they saw the fuzz, knew they should run. But Khodorkovsky forgot.”

“I hate classical music: not the thing but the name. It traps a tenaciously living art in a theme park of the past. It cancels out the possibility that music in the spirit of Beethoven could still be created today.”

On the history of the essay and someone who had gotten it all wrong.

As the U.S. heads toward the winter, the country is going round in circles, making the same conceptual errors that have plagued it since spring.

Today, artificial intelligence and information technologies have absorbed many of the questions that were once taken up by theologians and philosophers: the mind’s relationship to the body, the question of free will, the possibility of immortality.

The notorious Somali paramilitary warlord who goes by the nom de guerre Indha Adde, or White Eyes, walks alongside trenches on the outskirts of Mogadishu’s Bakara Market once occupied by fighters from the Shabab, the Islamic militant group that has pledged allegiance to Al Qaeda. In one of the trenches, the foot of a corpse pokes out from a makeshift grave consisting of some sand dumped loosely over the body. One of Indha Adde’s militiamen says the body is that of a foreigner who fought alongside the Shabab. “We bury their dead, and we also capture them alive,” says Indha Adde in a low, raspy voice. “We take care of them if they are Somali, but if we capture a foreigner we execute them so that others will see we have no mercy.”

On Westmont College, a “feeder school” to the upper ranks of the Christian conservative movement.

Twenty years after its premiere, the filmmakers and subjects look back at “the great American documentary.”

Katharine Hayhoe is one of the country’s most influential atmospheric scientists, spreading the word about the effects of climate change. She’s also an evangelical Christian.

In the highlands of Papua New Guinea, admist a mining boom, the public torture and killing of women accused of sorcery has returned.

The author visits Camp Trans, an annual protest organized after the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival evicted a transsexual woman.

With the first on the scene of the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 disaster.

On the wandering career and sweet baritone voice of Art Laboe, the DJ behind the phrase “oldies but goodies.”

The surreal afterlife of the once-ascendant Dubai, where “the legacy of oil has made everything worthless.”

The birth of the Beastie Boys—an oral history on the 25th anniversary of Licensed to Ill.