How Allstate’s secret auto insurance algorithm squeezes big spenders.

What the Democratic Party could learn from first-term Congresswoman Katie Porter.

A fatal overdose, a stunning coincidence, and a mother’s long quest to heal.

Why did two wealthy Sri Lankan brothers become suicide bombers?

Tennessee’s sick and dying coal ash cleanup workers fight for their lives.

Alt-health meets alt-right in the ‘conspirituality’ movement.

A conversation with visual artist Noelia Towers.

In Alabama, entrenched poverty and unusual geology have created a public-health disaster.

They thought that they’d found the perfect New York apartment. They weren’t alone.

Could that finally be changing?

How the Assad regime tracked and killed Marie Colvin for reporting on war crimes in Syria.

A profile of documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, who last January received “a curious e-mail from an anonymous stranger requesting her public encryption key.”

“You can treat a lot of people, and India has,’’ says an epidemiologist working on TB. “But if you have tests that cause misdiagnosis on a massive scale you are going to have a serious problem. And they do.”

Olathe, Kansas, became a global magnet for tech talent, thanks to plentiful jobs, cheap housing, and good schools. Then someone opened fire on a pair of Indian-born engineers.

Jeff Henry often said that his goal in life was to make customers of his family’s legendary water parks happy. It was a beautiful vision. Until it went horribly wrong.

An undercover federal agent behind a massive sting operation that took down dozens of gun-runners and drug-dealers tells all.

COVID-19 has led many Americans to rethink prison. But a habitual offender law has condemned hundreds of people who never physically hurt anyone to grow old and die behind bars.

How the actress masterfully shapes her public image.

An interview with Peter Matthiessen.

A gardener in Newark, NJ tries to grow the world’s best peppers.

Partying with a lost tycoon on his birthday.

On Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson, the duo behind Broad City.

On America’s vanishing night sky and life in perpetual light.

To save himself, a basketball recruit testified against his mother.