A profile of Avishek Sengupta, who drowned at the Walk the Plank obstacle during an endurance race last year.

Decades after the company tried to tackle sexual misconduct at two Chicago plants, harassment and assault continues.

Welcome to Wakaliwood, where a resourceful producer in the slums of Kampala makes action movies like Who Killed Captain Alex? Uganda’s First Action Movie for about $200 apiece.

Trump’s key adviser is a lobbyist known for reinventing tyrants.

The life and death of an Elvis obsessive.

Rise of the wonk.

A profile of the director.

The elusive director’s early years.

An appraisal of the Wisconsin congressman’s “green-eyeshade fiscal conservatism.”

How an activist investor does business (and ruins lives).

What the heck happened?

A profile of England’s pre-eminent scholar of race, culture, and nationalism.

Enlightened is probably the sharpest satire of modern white-collar work since the original British version of The Office, and its skewering of this world intertwines with its portrait of individual personalities so deftly that you can’t separate them. Creator Mike White captures the unsettling blandness of office protocol, politics and jargon, from the chill that workers feel when Human Resources calls them out of the blue to the impressive-sounding word salad labels that the company gives to its departments and projects. (The experimental department to which the newly demoted Amy is assigned is called “Cogentiva.”)

He’s got millions of followers on Vine. He’s got sponsors paying him tens of thousands to promote their products. He’s got a vanity license plate that says “AYYYYYYY.” It’s not enough.

An investigation into the past of a prominent voice in the men’s rights movement.

“It is not so difficult to get Paul McCartney to talk about the past, and this can be a problem. Anyone who has read more than a few interviews with him knows that he has a series of anecdotes, mostly Beatles-related, primed and ready to roll out in situations like these. Pretty good stories, some of them, too. But my goal is to guide McCartney to some less manicured memories—in part because I hope they'll be fascinating in themselves, but also because I hope that if I can lure him off the most well-beaten tracks, that might prod him to genuinely think about, and reflect upon, his life.

And so that is how—and why—we spend most of the next hour talking about killing frogs, taking acid, and the pros and cons of drilling holes in one's skull.”

Rich students complete their college degrees; working-class students usually don’t. How one school is trying to intervene.

Elite schools say they’re looking for academic excellence and diversity. But their thirst for tuition revenue means that wealth trumps all.

As a young community organizer in Chicago, Barack Obama concluded that to make a real difference, he needed to gain power. A look at how that plan has worked thus far.

John Aldridge fell overboard in the middle of the night, 40 miles from shore, and the Coast Guard was looking in the wrong place. How did he survive?

Joe Arpaio is tough on prisoners and undocumented immigrants. What about crime?

On nineteenth century invalidism and how societies have drugged themselves through tough transitions across history.