How Abraham Lincoln’s lifelong struggle with clinical depression was a key to his presidency.

Big-riggers who make sometimes less than minimum wage are locked legal fights with the unregulated leasing industry.

I thought I could change The Bachelor franchise from within. Until I realized I was their token.

To understand the state’s urban-rural divide, start by looking at Yamhill County’s proposed walking trail.

Their boat gone, they spent five days in the Atlantic Ocean without food or water, surrounded by sharks.

Inside the political battle over reproductive rights in Texas a decade ago.

We don’t often talk about how a paper’s collapse makes people feel: less connected, more alone.

Since she first started working in the hospitality industry two decades ago, Vida Afram has cleaned nearly 60,000 hotel rooms.

Finding the author of Pictures for Sad Children.

How a 29-year-old actress, reeling from the death of her first love and battling Dustin Hoffman off-screen, found herself on the set of Kramer vs. Kramer.

The private grief of Samaria Rice, twenty months after her son Tamir was killed.

In 1983, I wrote an article about sex and disabled people. In interviewing sexually active men and women, I felt removed, as though I were an anthropologist interviewing headhunters while endeavoring to maintain the value-neutral stance of a social scientist. Being disabled myself, but also being a virgin, I envied these people ferociously

Lance Butterfield was the captain of the football team, had a 4.0 GPA and a girl he loved. It wasn’t enough for his dad. And then his dad became too much for him.
Part of our guide to Skip Hollandsworth’s true crime writing at Slate.

“You revise your reader up, in your imagination, with every pass. You keep saying to yourself: ‘No, she’s smarter than that. Don’t dishonour her with that lazy prose or that easy notion.’ And in revising your reader up, you revise yourself up too.”

Growing up in Toledo, Ohio, Gina Grimm always wondered who her biological parents were. “You know, you go to the supermarket and think, ‘That lady kinda has my nose.’ Or, you know, ‘That man kinda has a resemblance to my face.’”

“Jeffrey Levitt stole and misappropriated a grand total of fourteen million, six hundred ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred forty-seven dollars and fifty-eight cents. He stole all that. It was the largest single white-collar crime in Maryland history, almost bringing down the state’s entire savings and loan industry.” And it still wasn’t enough.

Thomas Sweatt torched D.C. for decades and was finally jailed for killing one person. During a year-long correspondence from prison with a reporter, he confessed there were more.

An interview with painter Chris Martin.

A profile of the world’s top photo retoucher, who typically can retouch over 100 images in a single issue of Vogue.

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

How fight coach Greg Jackson, once dubbed “the Philosopher King of MMA,” does his job.

In between projects, the director searches for “that next soul-nourishing gig.”

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.

On settling in Los Angeles after life as a war correspondent in the Middle East.