“Richard Spencer is a troll and an icon for white supremacists. He was also my high-school classmate.”

Steidl, who is sixty-six, is known for fanatical attention to detail, for superlative craftsmanship, and for embracing the best that technology has to offer. "He is so much better than anyone,” William Eggleston, the American color photographer, told me, when I met him recently in New York. Steidl has published Eggleston for a decade; two years ago, he produced an expanded, ten-volume, boxed edition of “The Democratic Forest,” the artist’s monumental 1989 work. Eggleston passed his hand through the air, in a stroking gesture. “Feel the pages of the books,” he said. “The ink is in relief. It is that thick.”

A case of mistaken identity leads to the prosecution of an ordinary Eritrean for human smuggling.

Africa’s most important economy now appears to function for the benefit of one powerful family—the Guptas.

For the Never Trumpers, “Trumpism is more than a freakish blight on the republic. It is a moral test.”

Animal rescue centers have been buying dogs at auction from the very puppy mills they protest. Those dogs are then adopted out in exchange for significant donations,.

Twenty-five years after her career-making album, Liz Phair is still writing songs first and foremost for herself.

Cardinal Bernard Law knew as early as 1984 John Geoghan was molesting children. The priest would not be defrocked for 14 years.

A reporter encounters the echoes of family and the struggle for civil rights in Mississippi.

“Antarctica, the only continent without a Michelin star, has never been a destination for fine dining.”

Millions of American workers sign away legal rights without knowing what they’re in for: Arbitration Hell.

Inside the compulsive world of airline rewards hobbyists, who spend the bulk of their lives flying around the world for free.

How the former Fear Factor host’s podcast became an essential platform for “freethinkers” who hate the left.

In 2005, the painting sold at auction for $1,000. Its most recent price? $450 million.

The need for a new letter on an old manual machine leads the author to the shop of Martin Tytell — repairman, historian, and high priest of typewriters.

The Aziz Ansari controversy was just the beginning of the trouble for the website.

When patients turn to crowdfunding for medical costs, whoever has the most heartrending story wins.

Haley downloaded the app for fun. Now millions of people watch her videos.

For eight hours last fall, Paradise, Calif., became a zone at the limits of the American imagination — and a preview of the American future.

What happened to the National Enquirer after it went all in for Trump.

For hundreds of years, there were rumors of a shipwrecked treasure on the Oregon coast. But no one found anything, until Cameron La Follette began digging.

National economies collapse; species go extinct; political movements rise and fizzle. But—somehow, for some reason—Weird Al keeps rocking.

The Asian-American literary pioneer, whose writing has paved the way for many immigrants’ stories, has one last big idea.

For the first time, data scientists have modeled how climate refugees might move across international borders. This is what they found.