Three nights with 311 in the waning moments of free American life.

Six months of life and death in America.

Cryptomining in Europe’s most disputed state.

The perils of voting in the modern age.

And what it lost in the process.

Ghanaian sculptor El Anatsui is redefining Africa’s place in the global art scene.

Finding meaning in the climate fight.

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

On the shady underworld of door to door magazine sales teams, in which teens roam the country in vans, con locals with sob stories, party constantly in cheap motels, and leave behind a trail of rapes, fiery crashes, and new subscriptions.

TM The only other time I saw you was in Bleecker Bob’s in the ‘70s. You walked in eating pizza and wearing aviator glasses and Bleecker Bob showed you an Ian Dury picture sleeve and you said, “I don’t listen to music by people I don’t wanna fuck.” PS (laughter) Yeah, that was me.

The story of Levine’s father and his involvement in the legal battle over the 798 finished paintings Rothko had in his studio when he was discovered there in a pool of blood. The case spawned a feature film, Legal Eagles, and hinged on an unusual question; was Mark Rothko an artistic genius?

A trip to Scotland and an investigation of enduring belief.

Earlier this month, while China's leaders were staging a grandiose celebration of their revolution's 40th birthday, thousands of somber Hong Kong residents gathered for a dreary commemoration of their own. Far from the fireworks display in Beijing, Hong Kongers huddled in a rainstorm near the bronze statue of Queen Victoria, singing patriotic songs and listening to mournful poems dedicated to those who died in Tiananmen Square.

Joshua Williams was 18 when he was arrested in 2014 for stealing a bag of chips and lighting a QuikTrip trash can on fire in the aftermath of a protest sparked by the death of Antonio Martin near Ferguson, MO. He is still in prison.

Jackie Thomas was $29,134 in debt and in trouble with state regulators. She hadn’t slept in days. If a judge ruled against her, she’d fail the mothers who could only keep their jobs thanks to the 24-hour child care she offered.

Adventures with a group of young Hasidic men looking for God in psychedelic drugs.

One man’s experience with a sex surrogate in gay-conversion therapy.

How sectarian violence has made life in northern Nigeria “incomprehensibly frightful.”

A visit to Glenn Greenwald’s house in Rio.

Due to global warming, this island nation may cease to exist in 20 years.

The challenges of establishing a legal marijuana economy in Washington State.

The tale of the only art exhibit in space.

An illustrated codex, hand-composed in an unknown writing system.

The undoing of Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, who resigned in January amidst multiple swirling scandals.

What it was like to report on feminism for Playboy in 1969.