In El Salvador, more and more young women are choosing—or being forced into—gang life.

A two-part investigation into why so many more young players are getting seriously injured.

At Moody Bible Institute, purity culture and complementarianism have worked together to forgive abusers and punish the abused.

On the transformation of travel:

[I]t is astounding how quickly these technologies have changed one of the most basic aspects of our existence: the way we move through the world. When driving down the highway, you can now expect to see, in a sizable portion of the cars around you, GPS screens glowing on dashboards and windshields. What these devices promise, like the opening of the Western frontier, and like the automobile and the open road, is a greater freedom — although the freedom promised by GPS is of a very strange new sort.

A portrait of Ben Todd, a DIY champion of the emerging music scene in Nashville.

A dispatch from Vermont, which is in the midst of what the governor calls a “full-blown heroin crisis.”

A week in the author’s life when it became impossible to control the course of events.

An investigation into the death of a sacred white buffalo and the man who raised it.

How the ski town of the super-rich is responding to global warming.

“Is he Socrates or Mengele?” On the late Jack Kevorkian.

It’s worse than you thought.

Nannies and housecleaners have some of the hardest, least secure jobs in the nation. Now they’re organizing to change that.

America’s poet laureate of the dick joke is taking it all in stride.

On the brink of nuclear war, America’s bold response to the Soviet Union depended on an unknown spy agency operative.

A Buenos Aires hacker haven produced some of Argentina’s most valuable crypto companies. Then it suddenly disappeared.

A small New Jersey town is world-famous among Orthodox Jews as a place to come ask for handouts.

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

Thousands of bodies are buried in shallow graves around Raqqa, Syria. One group is using Facebook and Google Earth to identify human remains and rebury them where they belong.

The melancholy comedy of the silent screen star.

Second Life was supposed to be the future of the internet, but then Facebook came along. Yet many people still spend hours each day inhabiting this virtual realm. Their stories—and the world they’ve built—illuminate the promise and limitations of online life.

Visiting with the Christian fighters defending Iraq’s Nineveh Plains.

Rodeo bulls and the boys who ride them.