Nearly every American soldier injured in Iraq or Afghanistan is treated—for a few days at least—at a single hospital in Landstuhl, Germany.

Culture profoundly shapes our ideas about mental illness, which is something psychologist Nev Jones knows all too well.

For decades, the United States and Britain’s vision of democracy and freedom defined the postwar world. What will happen in an age of Donald Trump and Nigel Farage?

Kross cuts through the moans and shouts from off-camera: “Someone go wide!” She’s telling the cameramen to make sure they are adequately capturing the reverse gang bang of Ferrara—the love of her life.

In the 1980s, Billy Ray Bates, once dubbed “the Legend,” drank himself out of the NBA and ended up playing in the Philippines. For a few wild years, his legend grew—both on the court and in the bars.

“There are some things nobody needs in this world, and a bright-red, hunch-back, warp-speed 900cc cafe racer is one of them—but I want one anyway, and on some days I actually believe I need one. That is why they are dangerous.”

A profile of the reclusive billionaire who orchestrated a collectible toy craze.

The legendary artist has radically upended his distinctive style of portraiture—and his entire life. Why?

The story of Deso Dogg, a German rapper-turned-ISIS propagandist who may or may not have been killed in an airstrike.

The story of an 86-year-old Norwegian man who tired to circumnavigate the globe, solo, in an engineless sailboat he built himself.

A reporter recounts her weekend as an undercover Juggalette.

The life history of an unassuming Sudanese man, Noor Uthman Muhammed, who has spent the last nine years in Guantánamo Bay prison.

On the front lines of a dating culture dominated by right and left swipes.

The ups and downs of being an accidental viral sensation.

On a young Arnold Schwarzenegger and the body-building culture of Venice Beach in the 1970s.

On the 1998 crash of Swissair Fight 111 into the sea off a small Nova Scotia fishing village.

After faking his entire career and becoming a viral sensation, the heavy metal singer shares his side of the story.

How the Ovitzs, a family of Jewish dwarves from Transylvania, survived Auschwitz.

An inquiry into the assassination of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister.

The lives of Sue and Hector Badeau, who felt a calling to raise children and adopted twenty of them.

A profile of Mike Judge, creator of the now-resuscitated Beavis and Butthead.

How the death of a Muslim recruit revealed a culture of brutality.

A profile of California’s governor at the end of more than 40 years in public life.

Learning to live in Earth’s coldest conditions.

The many lives of Josh Tillman, who on the way to releasing one of the year’s best albums was “a defiant child of God, a broke dishwasher, a successful drummer, a Dionysian shaman, a failed poet, a drug-hoovering spiritualist, and a gleeful prankster.”