Is Russia behind a secret weapon that’s targeted dozens of American diplomats and spies?

How a tattooed video store clerk with a history of drinking and drug use ended up at an Islamic self-help class leading to the birth of ISIS.

He was a shining star of a tight-knit group of rising Black male models in London. Why did he die at the hands of another model?

Scott Dadich, 34, has been described by a former boss as a “combination of Pelé and Jesus” and is now tasked with figuring out the future of the magazine. All he’s got in his new Times Square office: an iPad and a book of George Lois’ Esquire covers.

How “tissue engineering” will change regenerative medicine.

Discovering why we hurt.

A dispatch from North Carolina.

How order collapsed in an American city.

A profile.

Argentina’s grandmothers are still searching for the stolen babies born in the dictatorship’s secret prisons.

On Taylor Swift’s passive-aggressive lyrics, the life of the writer, and the pain of middle school.

Richard Carr, a retired psychologist who had long dreamed of sailing around the world, was in the middle of the Pacific when he started sending frantic messages that said pirates were boarding his boat. Two thousand miles away in Los Angeles, his family woke up to a nightmare: he might be dying alone, and there was almost nothing they could do about it.

He’s been accused of fraud, sexual assault, and using drugs. But for Chris Bathum, who doesn’t have prior experience treating people struggling with addiction, opening several facilities promising to do just that has been surprisingly easy—and lucrative.

On reservations, where policing hardly exists, bruiser-for-hire vigilantes are often the first choice for justice.

A mother struggles to cope when a child is born with albinism.

Unpacking a false confession 20 years later.

The Srebrenica massacre, almost 20 years later.

Following a lobster from sea to table.

A bullfighter’s comeback after a brutal goring.

On the troubled, legendary Deschutes River fly-fishing guide.

A move to Los Angeles and a foray into the bourgeoisie.

How Craig Venter’s bugs might save the world.

What happens when top universities focus on careers rather than minds.

A sociobiologist on how we evolved into artists.