The perspective-bending art of identical twins Trevor and Ryan Oakes.

An essay on the evolving narrative of martyrdom in the Islamist and secular worlds.

Hartwick College didn’t really mean to annihilate the U.S. economy. A small liberal-arts school in the Catskills, Hartwick is the kind of sleepy institution that local worthies were in the habit of founding back in the 1790s; it counts a former ambassador to Belize among its more prominent alumni, and placidly reclines in its berth as the number-174-ranked liberal-arts college in the country. But along with charming buildings and a spring-fed lake, the college once possessed a rather more unusual feature: a slumbering giant of compound interest.

Meet Ben Sherwood, the new head of the Disney/ABC Television Group.

The shame of family detention camps on the U.S. border.

The most coveted items on the prison menu are salt and pepper packets.

Old India and new, viewed through the prism of the writer’s hometown.

Sex, the Constitution, and the Supreme Court.

On the mysteries of the man behind Alice in Wonderland.

A year in the life of an oxycodone addict.

On the Texas-sized trash island floating in the Pacific.

Horowitz went from the New Left to the far right. Now neither side wants him.

A profile of the man behind the “7 Habits.”

What the health care industry can learn from how The Cheesecake Factory does business.

The science of same-sex relationships in the wild.

The life and death of Johnny Romano, the youngest pro skateboarder ever.

How Internet porn has altered the ways we think about, and engage in, sex.

A personal account of the human network behind the leak.

“You got the DNA of a motherfucking go-getter.”

An essay about the weeks after the author’s brother nearly died.

The star on her unstoppable rise, repping gang life, and the peril of butt injections.

Tim Berners-Lee, the man who created the World Wide Web, has some regrets.

The ultra-athlete and the doubters.

On the long wait and the magical payoff.