On billionaire financier Lynn Tilton and her quest to become a public figure.

Tracing the steps of migrants from the Middle East and Africa to the Kent countryside.

Jack Nicholson interviewed at 73.

The town welcomed hundreds of Somali refugees. Then a private militia decided to go “ISIS hunting.”

The military wants future super-soldiers to control robots with their thoughts.

How a U.S. law intended to reduce dependence on fossil fuels has unleashed an environmental disaster in Indonesia.

Home-funeral guides believe that families can benefit from tending to—and spending time with—the bodies of their deceased.

Police unions were born of resistance to discipline for brutality. Do they belong in the labor movement?

A husband’s stroke, the Australian bushfires, and a trip to the Great Barrier Reef.

Trump transformed immigration through hundreds of quiet measures. Before they can be reversed, they have to be uncovered.

One Marine battalion has had four members kill themselves in just the last year. The soldiers have jury-rigged a system of Facebook notifications and Google spreadsheets to try to stop it.

“I was one of the few guys rooting for the comet to hit the Earth. Statistically, more people that deserved to go would go.”

Bill Ferguson does not believe his son, Ryan, killed a popular newspaper editor. To prove it, he’s drained his savings, performed public re-enactments of the crime, and alienated almost everyone in his Missouri city.

Doug Schifter waged a one-man campaign to stop Uber from putting his fellow black-car drivers out of business. Then he decided to take his own life.

The author teaches a college class about what it means to be white in America, but interrogating that question as a black woman in the real world is much harder to do.

Oliver Stone wanted a hit—and the chance to put America’s most iconic dissident onscreen. The subject wanted veto power. The Russian lawyer wanted someone to option the novel he’d written. The American lawyer just wanted the whole insane project to go away. Somehow a film got made.

The undoing of Tina Brown.

In defense of fiction.

The dark world of online murder markets.

A profile of organizational psychologist Adam Grant, who argues that the key to success comes from helping others.

Why hundreds of Buddhist monks moved from Taiwan to Prince Edward Island, buying up thousands of acres of land in the process.

Barack Obama wanted to endorse gay marriage on his own timetable. Joe Biden had other plans.