Charlie Santore sees Los Angeles from the inside, by breaking into safes whose owners can no longer unlock them.

American prisons can’t handle mentally ill inmates.

Priests are fielding more requests than ever for help with demonic possession, and a centuries-old practice is finding new footing in the modern world.

On a desolate, six-mile stretch of Indian beachfront, the bulk of the world’s big ships are dismantled for scrap. Though a ship is usually worth over $1 million in steel, the margins are low, the leftovers are toxic, and the labor—which employs huge numbers of India’s poor—is wildly dangerous.

Rethinking “the internet’s kindest place.”

Newt Gingrich turned partisan battles into bloodsport and now he’s reveling in his achievements.

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

The platform’s entertainment for children is weirder—and more globalized—than adults could have expected.

He was 8 years old, and the signs of abuse were obvious. Yet time and again, caseworkers from child-protective services failed to help him.

Polarization. Conspiracy theories. Attacks on the free press. An obsession with loyalty. Recent events in the United States follow a pattern Europeans know all too well.

A mysterious wild cat in Sri Lanka may hold a clue.

A profile of Paul Manafort, “a great normalizer of corruption” who “weakened the capital’s ethical immune system.”

The debate over what really killed the dinosaurs is still raging.

A long-running inferiority complex, vast statutory power, a chilling new directive from the top—inside America’s unfolding immigration tragedy.

In more than a decade of arguing cases in court, I’ve witnessed the stubborn cultural biases female attorneys must navigate to simply do their jobs.

Mel Brooks in his 90s.

Thirty-four years after the Bhopal gas leak, the abandoned waste pits are spreading poison and still destroying lives.

In America’s deadliest big city, the task of announcing each new murder falls to police spokesman T. J. Smith. One year ago, he confronted a killing like no other.

A history of modern capitalism from the perspective of the straw.

On the legacy of Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

In Baltimore and other segregated cities, the life-expectancy gap between African-Americans and whites is as much as 20 years. One young woman’s struggle shows why.

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

On the confines of masculinity.

Is Stephen Miller serious?

How the 9.9 percent became “the principal accomplices in a process that is slowly strangling the economy, destabilizing American politics, and eroding democracy.”