A writer embarks on a seven-year trek from Africa to Tierra Del Fuego.

What it’s like to have your novel filmed by Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski.

Mistakes were made by the middle-aged Americans who hoped to take over Gambia.

How the Oculus founder, along with ex-Palantir executives, plan to reinvent national security, starting with Trump’s agenda.

On returning to Britain, which is no longer home.

One man’s quest to ride the strangest wave.

“Incels” are going under the knife to reshape their faces, and their dating prospects.

Five years ago, the flight vanished into the Indian Ocean. Officials on land know more about why than they dare to say.

"4chan value system, like Trump’s ideology, is obsessed with masculine competition (and the subsequent humiliation when the competition is lost). Note the terms 4chan invented, now so popular among grade schoolers everywhere: “fail” and “win”, “alpha” males and “beta cucks”. This system is defined by its childlike innocence, that is to say, the inventor’s inexperience with any sort of “IRL” romantic interaction. And like Trump, since these men wear their insecurities on their sleeve, they fling these insults in wild rabid bursts at everyone else. Trump the loser, the outsider, the hot mess, the pathetic joke, embodies this duality. "

Meeting the rebel government of an embattled country.

A profile of Zendaya.

The challenges of growing up in the modern world as the reincarnation of a famous Tibetan lama.

Exploring the relationship between cats and the Internet in Japan.

Revisiting a 30-year-old beating death in St. Louis.

Spending time with the Tonya Harding Fan Club in the wake of the assault on Nancy Kerrigan.

A visit with Ai Weiwei, Laura Poitras, and Jacob Appelbaum, three people who live in justifiable paranoia of government surveillance.

In Guyana after the Jonestown massacre, with the survivors and the dead.

June 4, 1974: the first and last 10-cent beer night in Cleveland Indians history.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, oil magnate and once the richest man in Russia, delivers a speech from prison, where he has lived since 2003.