No contemporary artist has used natural history to tell the kind of stories that painter Walton Ford tells.

The true love story of Peanuts.

The story of Akai Gurley before he was killed by a New York City police officer.

How the godfather of “fratire” went from chronicling his drunken sexual conquests to ghostwriting Tiffany Haddish’s memoir.

What happens when you put a classroom on wheels and park it in the poorest neighborhoods of San Francisco?

An unarmed man, a cop charged with murder, and the challenge of policing mental illness.

Highlights from two hours of leaked audio from recent staff Q&A sessions with Facebook’s CEO.

The true tale of a bodybuilder turned social media influencer who built an illicit empire.

A profile of the contrarian French scientist Didier Raoult, who proposed an anti-malarial drug as a COVID cure.

With Deutsche Bank’s help, an oligarch’s buying spree trails ruin across the US heartland.

An early history of the 2020 presidential campaign.

In Kabul, one of the world’s most dangerous cities, one man works to help Afghan migrants return to a place they never knew.

A century of research has demonstrated how poverty and discrimination drive disease. Can COVID push science to finally address the issue?

“Before I came to Hollywood, I was confidently queer. Years of mixed messages in the industry changed that.”

On the history and study of pica:

Indeed, we have long defined ourselves and others by what we do and do not eat, from kashrut dietary restrictions described in Leviticus to the naming of Comanche bands (Kotsoteka—buffalo eaters, Penateka—honey eaters, Tekapwai—no meat) to insults—French frogs, English limeys, German krauts. But poya seemed to beg a different question: what was one to make of people who ate food that wasn’t food at all?

Returning to Forth Worth after two and a half defection years in the Soviet Union, Lee Harvey Oswald became friends with a Russian emigre family with a son of his age. After Kennedy was shot, they would be called on to translate the Secret Service interrogation of his young Russian wife.

She was a thirteen-year-old from the Chabad Lubavitch community who would dip into a barbershop bathroom to swap her orthodox clothes for those of a streetwalker. Her pimping and rape allegations against a group of black men in their twenties, repeatedly recanted and then reaffirmed, would send the D.A.’s office into disarray.

Kids say it’s fun to take cars. They brag to each other about how many they’ve stolen and the sleekest models they’ve sped away in. They say they are bored and that it’s easy, sharing videos of themselves driving at 120 miles per hour. They smile with key fobs, offering rides on Facebook. But all of the biggest car thieves had something to run from.

A bungled operation in Honduras and the enduring ineffectiveness of America’s war on drugs.

An investigation into the practice of putting teenagers in solitary confinement.

Summiting one of the world’s toughest peaks gave Julian Torres something an IED blast in Afghanistan had taken away.

Across the world, millions of displaced Syrians have been met with hesitation and hostility. Not in Canada.

An investigation into the abuse and neglect of adults with disabilities in Illinois.