An outsider artist’s odyssey to the center of his daughter’s life.

A look at Chicago’s DJ culture in the ’90s.

One day in 1997, Sneak promised his friend and fellow Chicago DJ Derrick Carter a new 12-inch for Carter's label Classic, then spent hours fruitlessly laboring over a basic, bustling four-four beat. Finally, Sneak gave in and smoked the J he'd had stashed for later in the day. When he came back inside, he carelessly dropped the needle onto a Teddy Pendergrass LP, heard the word "Well . . . ," and realized, "That's the sample, right there." He threaded Pendergrass's 20-year-old disco hit "You Can't Hide From Yourself" through a low-pass filter to give it the effect of going in and out of aural focus, creating one of the definitive Chicago house singles.

Oomba was a startup designed to make a lot of money from the games industry. Instead, everyone played each other.

The Brooklyn rapper, fresh out of prison on parole, talks about life on the inside and where he goes next.

What will it take to get the world’s choral musicians back together again?

The Havana Syndrome first affected spies and diplomats in Cuba. Now it has spread to the White House.

Yasiel Puig’s journey to the Dodgers.

How airlines woo the rich.

Can an illegal drug heal PTSD?

The fallout from a 1987 Wisconsin manhunt.

The dark art of presidential debate prep.

On the rise of K-pop.

Meeting the rebel government of an embattled country.

Visiting a lost friend.

On the Adderall days of college.

How Jeffrey Katzenberg became the Democrats’ kingmaker.

On the scientific research of Romanian orphans.

The life of a mid-level bookie.

Life after The Real World.

A profile of the vice president.

How the group’s 10 members live today.

A profile of the famed photographer.

The last days of Spalding Gray.

The story of Levine’s father and his involvement in the legal battle over the 798 finished paintings Rothko had in his studio when he was discovered there in a pool of blood. The case spawned a feature film, Legal Eagles, and hinged on an unusual question; was Mark Rothko an artistic genius?

On the endless quest to predict earthquakes.