A local environmental activist fights to prepare her community for life beyond mining.

Prince had grand plans for his autobiography, but only a few months to live.

An obituary for Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

More than a decade ago, a prominent academic was exposed for having faked her Cherokee ancestry. Why has her career continued to thrive?

Midtown Manhattan. The highest concentration of showbiz havens and hangouts in the whole entire world. The Chorus Girls. The Drunk Newsmen. The Jazz Hepsters. The Mob. They converge with the force of a fly against a windshield. This is where American popular culture is born. Its influence permeates the nation. Walk the streets and weave through the hustlers, the gangsters, the bookies, the rummies... and somewhere among that crowd - you'll walk past a nondescript artistic genius or twelve, indiscernible from the dregs, biding time until they transform the American landscape. And high-above the loud, syncopated beat of Midtown you can hear... The Comedians.

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

At work with Jean-Claude Carrière, screenwriter of choice for an entire generation of top-flight directors.

Anna Nicole Smith molded herself into an American fantasy. When that fantasy fell apart, we blamed her for it.

“GOD Almighty, you can get killed in Baltimore—for no reason at all.”

Sewage epidemiology has been embraced in other countries for decades, but not in America. Will Covid change that?

An interview with Chase Strangio, who has won a series of landmark court cases in his role as ACLU deputy director for transgender justice.

A minute by minute account of the officers and first responders on the scene of the San Bernadino shooting and the subsequent firefight between police and and the Farooks.

The editors of N+1 recap the revolution that is/was the internet with pit-stops to survey the Bolshevik Revolution, the NYT’s messy relationship with tech, and the value of an ad.

The urban legend about the guy who hooked a rocket up to the back of his car and drove/flew it into a mountain? The anonymous author claims the story is about him and some of his small town high school buddies.

The night the doctor behind the Scarsdale Diet was shot by his mistress, the impeccable headmistress of the elite all-girls boarding school Madeira.

On the anger that led to the Watts Riots of 1965, the mistakes made during those six days in August, and how little changed afterward.

In Guyana after the Jonestown massacre, with the survivors and the dead.

After a racial hazing incident, the first black head of South Africa’s University of Free State confronts the myths of the reconciliation era.

The story of the meeting that led to the creation of ISIS, as explained by someone still on the inside.

A profile of the “Oldboy” and “The Handmaiden” director.

The history of the City of London Corporation, a “prehistoric monster which had mysteriously survived into the modern world.”

The inside story of the first homicide in America’s most secure prison.

The epidemics of the early 21st century revealed a world unprepared, even as the risks continue to multiply. Much worse is coming.

On the eugenicist and the Mellon family heiress who built the anti-immigrant policy agenda that Trump is now implementing.