An archipelago off the African coast and its migration crisis.

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?

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.

What happens when we’re tracked everywhere we go?

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

Could that finally be changing?

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

An American writer living in Japan, unread and underpublished, sends an email to a group of writers he doesn’t know informing them that he is committing suicide.

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.

Jubilee Baptist is a quasi-socialist, anti-racist, LGBTQ-affirming church conducting a bold experiment: focusing on debt, work, and freedom from oppression instead of fear and moralism.

Why little has changed in popular American style in the last 20 years.

Why is this happening? In some large measure, I think, it’s an unconscious collective reaction to all the profound nonstop newness we’re experiencing on the tech and geopolitical and economic fronts. People have a limited capacity to embrace flux and strangeness and dissatisfaction, and right now we’re maxed out.

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.

The science behind why high school sucks.