A profile of the Talking Heads frontman.

Toward a materialist history of the blockbuster movie.

A profile of an influencer.

The business of being him is becoming a whole lot more fun.

On a century of Muslim misrepresentation in Hollywood.

A profile of the long-shot presidential candidate.

The extraordinary “rescue” of a fallen California firefighter.

The view of a life from cruising altitude.

What’s behind the explosion of British potato chip flavors?

On the plight of indigenous suicide in Alaska.

The strange life of a 16-year-old model.

On the epidemic of deaths in jails.

On the birth of a progressive protest movement under President Trump.

Millions of hearts fail each year. Why can’t we replace them?

A diary of the author’s visit to Palestine.

“There is no hierarchy in the web of life.”

Like hundreds of other local slaves — [they] had been pressed into service by the Confederates, compelled to build an artillery emplacement amid the dunes across the harbor. They labored beneath the banner of the 115th Virginia Militia, a blue flag bearing a motto in golden letters: “Give me liberty or give me death.”

The story of the loneliest whale in the world.

The documentary filmmakers from Longbow Productions said they wanted to tell the story of the Bundy Family and their standoff with the government. Their cameras were real, but the people behind them were undercover FBI agents.

A profile of the man who ran Jeb Bush’s $118 million super-PAC as he cleans out his office. Had Murphy been legally allowed to talk to the candidate during the election, here’s what he would have said: “What the fuck were we thinking?”

“What transpired in the streets appeared to be a kind of municipal version of shock and awe.”

The strange case of Kip Litton, road race fraud.

A case of mistaken identity and the incarceration of an innocent man.

The story of 15-year-old Audrie Pott, who took her own life after nude photos of her were circulated at school.