How Netflix and Amazon upended the movie business.

How a home-schooled teenager became an oxy kingpin.

Chaos and heroism during a Kentucky school shooting.

On the road with the world’s greatest hitchhiker.

The most prolific bank robber in Texas history.

A profile.

When the Swiss Alps heat up, the ice gives up bodies and secrets.

On a Presidential paper trail.

An unfinished civil war inspires a global delusion.

How pop-up tax preparers make billions off the poor.

On Dooce.com founder Heather Armstrong.

So you’re surrounded by idiots. Guess who the real jerk is.

On the “white gold” that fueled slavery.

How social media, FaceTune, and plastic surgery created a single, cyborgian look.

How one company helps landlords exploit a loophole in New York’s tenant laws.

On Toyin Salau’s disappearance and death.

A dispatch from the pandemic under Governor Kristi Noem.

Searching for home at a cowboy poetry convention in Elko, Nevada.

The boutique that defined early-aughts L.A. style has taken an unexpected turn.

Thomas Pogge is a Yale professor and one of the world’s most prominent ethicists. He also stands accused of sexually harassing his female students.

The vans, operated by for-profit companies, carry tens of thousands of people every year. They lack beds, toilets, and medical services. More than a dozen women have alleged they were sexually assaulted by guards while being transported; since 2012, at least four people have died.

The night America elected Donald J. Trump president, 38-year-old Richard B. Spencer, who fancies himself the “Karl Marx of the alt-right” and envisions a “white homeland,” crowed, “we’re the establishment now.” If so, then the architect of the new establishment is Spencer’s former mentor, Paul Gottfried, a retired Jewish academic...

During New York’s ’80s and ’90s crack epedemic, a flashy detective who “imagined himself a crusader who created his own rules” and his star witness, a crack addicted prostitute who seemed to constantly be at the scene of homicides, sent dozens of men to prison for life. Now, they are under investigation.

In America's third oldest major city, a new sport has been born. It's called rustling cars. According to auto‑theft statis­tics, Newark has the highest rate of car theft per capita in the nation, more than forty cars each day. Sixty‑five percent of the thefts are perpetrated by teens and preteens, known hereabouts as the Doughnut Boys.

The author boards the Costa Atlantica for several days of line dancing, burlesque and buffets as part of the cruise industry’s new foray into China.