The same “Stephen Hawking voice” is used by little girls, old men, and people of every racial and ethnic background. Inside the quest to give people a voice of their own.

A profile of Elaine May, one the most important figures in American pop cultural history—and one of the most hidden.

Against all predictions, the Taliban took the Afghan capital in a matter of hours. This is the story of why and what came after, by a reporter and photographer who witnessed it all.

The Mexican novelist and activist talks about the role that the US plays in the hemisphere, and a joint future for North and South America.

We need your memory and your imagination or ours shall never be complete. You need our memory to redeem your past, and our imagination to complete your future. We may be here on this hemisphere for a long time. Let us remember one another. Let us respect one another. Let us walk together outside the night of repression and hunger and intervention, even if for you the sun is at high noon and for us at a quarter to twelve.

"These young men seem to have no conception of the consequences of allying yourself publicly with the far right, even before their hero gets accused of endorsing pedophilia in public. Yiannopoulos has been good to them. They’re having a great time. Over the course of a few hours, I find myself playing an awkward Wendy to these lackluster lost boys as I watch them wrestle with the moral challenge of actually goddamn growing up."

A day at the mall with the cast of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.

On Cecilia Chang, the St. John’s fundraiser who committed suicide after being convicted of fraud, and the university administrators who benefited from her crime.

Naffe, a young Republican, entered the belly of the political beast – and was nearly eaten.

On the trail of the phantom women who changed American music and vanished without a trace.

The author of The Junction Boys can’t tell you how many times he’s been arrested.

Inside the complicated world of running The New York Times.

Newly sober, a man considers faith in its various forms.

After 10 years of documenting memes, nobody has seen this much shit.

The anti-trust saga of Microsoft and Netscape.

An investigation into the aftermath of an allegation.

After decades of influence, the media mogul isn’t so much a person as an epoch.

After sepsis forced the amputation of Sheila Advento’s hands, an intricate transplant technique made her whole again. Then came the side effects.

It started with black market rations and ended with “the wedding of the century.”

The unlikely rise of the 1983 national croquet champions.

The joys—and absurdities—of finding oneself abandoned in a desolate landscape.

An undercover report on Afghanistan’s drug-smuggling border police that is now heavily used for intelligence training.

Romney’s former Bain partner makes a case for inequality.

National economies collapse; species go extinct; political movements rise and fizzle. But—somehow, for some reason—Weird Al keeps rocking.

For generations, plantation owners strove to keep black laborers on the farm and competing businesses out of town. Today, the towns faring best are the ones whose white residents stayed to reckon with their own history.