How does a Latin-pop superstar spend lockdown? Hanging out with his girlfriend, watching ‘Toy Story’ and surprising the world.

A profile of the contrarian French scientist Didier Raoult, who proposed an anti-malarial drug as a COVID cure.

Nina Compton’s adopted city knows how to ride out a storm. The pandemic plays by different rules.

With Deutsche Bank’s help, an oligarch’s buying spree trails ruin across the US heartland.

Long before the likes of Kim Kardashian, Marie Bashkirtseff sought to secure celebrity through curation of “personal brand.”

Inside the Epoch Times: How an aspiring poet in Brooklyn became a tool in a right-wing propaganda blitz linked to Falun Gong.

An early history of the 2020 presidential campaign.

When model Kimberly Fattorini died after a night out in Hollywood, everyone assumed she’d accidentally overdosed. But there was more to the story.

China is forcing hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other minorities into hard, manual labour in the vast cotton fields of its western region of Xinjiang.

Some teachers and students got sick. Principals had to improvise constantly. But it worked—mostly.

A plane crash survivor and trauma researcher turns her attention to the memories we’re making now.

How warnings of AI doom gave way to primal fear of primates posting.

A century of research has demonstrated how poverty and discrimination drive disease. Can COVID push science to finally address the issue?

Gary Haase has amassed the world’s most expensive Pokémon card collection, valued at over $10 million. So why isn’t he cashing in?

When things go horribly wrong during a stay, the company’s secretive safety team jumps in to soothe guests and hosts, help families—and prevent PR disasters.

The constant discomfort of a genital injury creates a covenant of pain. It is impossible to think about anything else.

The unintended consequences of cost cutting corporate decisions on display at a Tulsa Wal-Mart Supercenter.

“Before I came to Hollywood, I was confidently queer. Years of mixed messages in the industry changed that.”

Returning to Forth Worth after two and a half defection years in the Soviet Union, Lee Harvey Oswald became friends with a Russian emigre family with a son of his age. After Kennedy was shot, they would be called on to translate the Secret Service interrogation of his young Russian wife.

Breslin’s unflinching and devastating investigation of the porn industry in Los Angeles would be at home in many an excellent magazine. But Breslin didn’t go that route. Instead, she built a custom site that presents the story with her photographs and design.

-A. Madrigal

A look at Andy Warhol’s enduring popularity and power in the art market.

Warhol’s art was not supposed to be a matter of emotion, introspection or spiritual quest; it was to be an image, pure and simple. “During the 1960s,” he wrote knowingly in 1975, “I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don’t think they’ve ever remembered.”

Modern methods allow the Islamic State to keep up its systematic rape of captives under medieval codes.

Kids say it’s fun to take cars. They brag to each other about how many they’ve stolen and the sleekest models they’ve sped away in. They say they are bored and that it’s easy, sharing videos of themselves driving at 120 miles per hour. They smile with key fobs, offering rides on Facebook. But all of the biggest car thieves had something to run from.

Within the world of law enforcement, bounty hunting is something of an aberration. An accident arising from the combination of common law, frontier justice, chattel slavery, and capitalism. No other job is more American. Bounty hunting’s legality is a mishmash of confusing requirements, regulations, and certifications that vary widely by state.