What happens when illness becomes an identity?

How Kaws short-circuited the art world.

How the presidential candidate teaches.

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

In February, Jerusalem’s FC Beitar, the only soccer team in the Israeli Premier League to have never signed an Arab player, signed two Chechnyan Muslims, sparking national controversy and pitting the organization against their ultras fan club La Familia.

“Joe’s hand began to tingle, and he called the group together. The toxins would leave his system in 48 hours, he said. He’d be conscious the whole time.”

How the woman who brought Westboro Baptist to Twitter came to question the church’s beliefs.

Twelve-step programs treat alcohol and drugs according to the same principles. But heroin changes the way the brain works. If there’s a medication that treats heroin addiction, why aren’t we using it?

“I could give a flying crap about the political process,” Beck says. Making money, on the other hand, is to be taken very seriously. And he’s very good at it: Beck pulled in $32 million in the last year.

“The entire system set up to monitor and regulate Wall Street is fucked up. Just ask the people who tried to do the right thing.”

Humanity has 30 years to find out.

On the road with Johnson Zeng, who buys up the metal “Americans won’t or can’t be bothered to recycle.”

Growing up in a Toronto suburb while a serial rapist is on the loose.

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

Supreme, founded by a secretive self-made millionaire in 1994, is the most influential streetwear brand in the world.

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.

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.

Life behind the Beatles curtain, with the man whose real name is actually Richard Starkey.