A profile of Sorkin, who wrote The Social Network. “I don’t feel like a nerd,” he says, “but I think I understand them.”

On the set of Afghanistan’s first soap opera and at home with its cast.

On Sam Cooke, theme parties, and the importance of McDonald’s-related jingles when street performing.

The bizarre tale–and unlikely turnaround–of an NHL player who tried to have his youth coach murdered.

The life and death of a reporter.

An open letter on Grand Theft Auto 5 and aging out of the Rockstar Games franchise.

On simplicity, self-reliance and refusing to cooperate with “the apparatus of secrecy” that surrounds online surveillance.

Two floors of a building in prime Brooklyn for $1000 a month seemed too good to be true. It was.

Balancing the creation of a house with living in it as a home.

What former NBA coach Monty Williams learned in the wake of losing his wife.

As a father succumbs to lung cancer, his son tries to recreate his personality in the form of a chatbot.

How a fight to stop a potentially toxic Costco chicken plant in Nebraska made common cause of small-town environmentalists and anti-Muslim xenophobes.

A feat of elegant design wowed elite architects and promised to bring education to poor children in Nigeria. Then it collapsed.

In South Carolina, civil forfeiture targets black people’s money most of all, exclusive investigative data shows.

How a bunch of Canadian hipsters wound up smuggling cocaine (and getting caught).

The difficult final year of a much-loved and legendarily difficult woman.

What could the political effects be of a media that actually served working-class Americans?

A pilot program in Mississippi offers a glimpse of the possibilities.

A profile of the actor, who died yesterday at age 43.

An interview with the creator and star of “I May Destroy You.”

Forget about the ticks. A pattern of harm follows “Lyme-literate medical doctors.”

Private executioners paid in cash. Middle-of-the-night killings. False or incomplete justifications.

Inside the race to eliminate one of nature’s biggest threats.

"I don't know if I was as angry as much as I was misunderstood.  A lot of the things we did contained a lot of humor that went over people's heads."

Members of the multiplicity community say they are many different people–sometimes so many they think of themselves as a city–all existing within one body.