How social media stars like Addison Rae gave the cosmetics industry a makeover.

Inside Randall Emmett’s direct-to-video empire, where many Hollywood stars have found lucrative early retirement.

Exploited by apps. Attacked by thieves. Unprotected by cops. 65,000 strong, with only themselves to count on.

Why is life in this country so hostile to single people?

Why psychologists love “priming.”

A conversation with the comedian.

JW: You’ve talked about how you’ve had to explain moral lessons to your daughters, but do it in an inarticulate, catchy way. It’s almost as though you’re writing material for them. What’s the place of morality and ethics in your comedy? I think those are questions people live with all the time, and I think there’s a lazy not answering of them now, everyone sheepishly goes, “Oh, I’m just not doing it, I’m not doing the right thing.” There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don’t know what that is, I’m really curious about that. I’m really curious about what people think they’re doing when they’re doing something evil, casually.

A tenth of Kannapolis, North Carolina, residents were laid off after the local textile mill closed. A billionaire bought the mill and turned it into a mecca for biotechnology and life sciences research. Now many residents are human research subjects.

Investigating an insecure billionaire’s true worth.

Life after a scandal.

On a $40 million raise and a fired co-founder.

A trip to Hempfest with cannabis breeder DJ Short.

How Korean immigrants in L.A. revolutionized fashion’s production cycle.

Life, death, and last year’s Auburn-Alabama game.

How one man made millions with a fancy hamburger.

Portraits from weed country.

What one woman spends in a year.

What’s really happening in Kyrgyzstan.

How sex scandals have made Silvio Berlusconi even more powerful in Italy.

Syrian orphans become child laborers in Turkey.

What does it mean to be polite anymore?

A profile.

On a Presidential paper trail.

An unfinished civil war inspires a global delusion.

How social media, FaceTune, and plastic surgery created a single, cyborgian look.

On Toyin Salau’s disappearance and death.