How artist Petr Pavlensky uses his body and the Russian legal system as canvases.

Yes to Bernie Sanders, Rihanna, and the Real Housewives. No to the pussy hats.

For insect detectives, the trickiest cases involve the bugs that aren’t really there.

The Belgian forward’s journey to greatness.

Sabotage and dirty dealing in the $175 billion Amazon Marketplace.

The battle over police torture and reparations in Chicago’s schools.

On the centuries-long search for the perfect hangover remedy.

A new approach to fighting the opioid crisis as it quietly rages on.

Twenty years after its premiere, the filmmakers and subjects look back at “the great American documentary.”

The author visits Camp Trans, an annual protest organized after the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival evicted a transsexual woman.

A new Ned Kelly film explores the masculinity behind the mask.

Without understanding the lingering illness that some patients experience, we can’t understand the pandemic.

On the drone strikes that killed Anwar al-Awlaki and his U.S.-born son.

The old and the new in New York.

With the Kurdish pesh merga on the road to Mosul.

How the icon’s personal struggles with identity fed his art.

What accounts for the gender gap in literary criticism?

On the campaign trail with Florida’s malleable ex-governor.

An ode to the fastball and the pitchers who throw it best.

An argument for how the system protects police.

On the ground at the big, sad, strange Burt Reynolds memorabilia auction in Las Vegas.

Watching TV with the President the night before he fired James Comey.

An interview with the mind behind Star Trek.

After the relationship ended, the harassment began.