Sex in the NBA in the wake of Magic Johnson’s HIV announcement.

The untold story of Napoleon Hill, who practically invented the self-help scam through his 1937 book Think and Grow Rich.

How Montana became home to the highest concentration of hate groups in the nation.

On the life at sea of Henk De Velde, who has circumnavigated the globe six times.

Inside the Tacoma Northwest Detention Center, “an opaque system that literally disappears people” accused of immigrating illegally.

Retracing the steps of the most devastating wildfire in California history.

A visit to the set of Lost Highway, minus an actual interview with the director.

The secret diary of Nina Simone.

On growing up in Hollywood, the cost of beating Oprah at the Oscars, and why Jack Nicholson doesn’t act anymore.

A year in the lives of Abigail Spanberger and Ayanna Pressley.

On the author of How the Irish Became White.

She tore up a picture of the pope. Then her life came apart. These days, she just wants to make music.

On the divisive narrative of “outside agitators” and how labor history can help guide the protest movement.

Amid coronavirus outbreaks, migrants face the starkest of choices: Risking their lives in U.S. detention or returning home to the dangers they fled.

Each time the work of the British-Mexican artist and writer is reborn, it seems more prescient.

The country’s hacking software is recognized the world over. Not everyone thinks it’s a good thing.

Lawyer Richard Luthmann was a Roger Stone-worshipping member of the Staten Island political scene. Then the fake Facebook posts began.

This is the story of the night Hannah was not officially raped in Washington, D.C.

An engineering team races to create a next-generation computer.

The first installment of The Soul of a New Machine.

On photographing the former Norma Jeane Mortenson. “I think she was the best light comedienne we have in films today, and anyone will tell you that the toughest of acting styles is light comedy.”—Billy Wilder

A profile of Travis Kalanick, who resigned from the ride the ride-hailing company he built after leading it to the brink of implosion.

A profile of Rev. William Barber II, who gave one of the most memorable speeches at last summer’s Democratic National Convention and is now leading the Christian protest against the White House.

The story of a young man from rural Ghana who bought a pair of secret camera glasses and got himself smuggled across the Sahara, to film crime and exploitation along the way.

Two men, separated by more than 150 years, discover the folly of attempting Western-style capitalism in Micronesia.

On the actors who unwittingly starred in The Innocence of Muslims.