How Allstate’s secret auto insurance algorithm squeezes big spenders.

What the Democratic Party could learn from first-term Congresswoman Katie Porter.

A fatal overdose, a stunning coincidence, and a mother’s long quest to heal.

Why did two wealthy Sri Lankan brothers become suicide bombers?

Alt-health meets alt-right in the ‘conspirituality’ movement.

A conversation with visual artist Noelia Towers.

In Alabama, entrenched poverty and unusual geology have created a public-health disaster.

Adventures with the Wolf of Weed Street.

What happens when we’re tracked everywhere we go?

An essay about artificial intelligence, emotional intelligence, and finding an ending.

By the time I got access to the model, it was late July, 2020. In the fifth month of quarantine, having recently moved home to face my teenage journals, I wasn’t sure if I missed talking to strangers or to Omar. But I wanted to know if, with enough prodding, I could turn GPT-3 into either, or at least convince myself that I had.

A profile of the actor.

They thought that they’d found the perfect New York apartment. They weren’t alone.

Could that finally be changing?

An eccentric monk’s singular scrap cathedral reveals the chaos and genius of his mind.

How do you sell a $3000 vacuum?

On the mechanics of New Jersey state politics.

The Muay Thai fighters of Klong Prem.

How the famed war photographer covered D-Day.

Coming out in a country where that can get you killed.

The prison life of O.J. Simpson.

In the late 1960s, a German named Günther Hauck disappeared in Brazil. When he emerged, he was calling himself Tatunca Nara and claimed to be the chief of the Ugha Mongulala, an previously unknown Indian tribe. Since then he has lived in the Amazon, his legend growing. Jacques Cousteau hired him as a guide. An Indiana Jones movie was based on his stories. And three people who made pilgrimages to see him never came home.

“I write this with a baseball bat by the bed.”

The alt-country wunderkind turned walking disaster finds peace at 39.

A journalist’s memories of covering the great Baltimore fire of 1904.