A requiem for the ‘content portal’ era.

At home with the liberated former House speaker.

An interview with the activist.

The transgender community fights for health care.

A year with the scandal-plagued squad.

Why do we hate decaf so much?

What happens when illness becomes an identity?

How Kaws short-circuited the art world.

How the presidential candidate teaches.

An argument for trying.

The families Dodger Stadium removed.

On Beirut’s broken sewage system.

One man’s obsession with his miniature Christmas village.

Child custody, colonization, and the choices mother make

On claiming the conquistador Juan Ponce de León as an ancestor and the fictions we tell ourselves.

The agriculture industry has known for 40 years that using antibiotics can create superbugs. Only one company has taken the science seriously.

In New York City, every 4-year-old has access to free early education—even those whose families make up the 1 percent.

On the American teenager who was kidnapped by Islamic militants while on vacation in the Philippines.

Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe build the most powerful Tea Party organization in the country. Then a feud threatened to undo everything.

The last great brawling sports team in America—Reggie, Catfish, Goose, Gator, and the Boss—remember their fallen leader.

Meet Mark Millar, the brains behind our era’s most violent, ingenious comics.

The original article that inspired the movie Spotlight.

North Carolina’s protest movement has galvanized the state’s progressives, but couldn’t stop 2014’s Republican tide. Its leaders say they’re just getting started.

A former colleague visits the ‘Fire Fiend’ in prison.

On February 10, 1982, Lucy Dixon’s daughter was raped. Against all odds, she and her family brought the man to justice.