The mentalist’s manipulation techniques give people too sophisticated to believe in the paranormal something quasi-scientific to hang on to.

Thomas Joshua Cooper risks his life to document the world’s remotest places.

Politicians want to rein in the retail giant. But Jeff Bezos, the master of cutthroat capitalism, is ready to fight back.

Where will predictive text take us?

Police departments have become more attentive to officers’ use of excessive force on the job, but that concern rarely extends to the home.

Life in Silicon Valley during the dawn of the unicorns.

“I found it both freeing and disturbing to spend time on a platform that didn’t ask me to pretend that I was on the Internet for a good reason.”

Decades on, a massive half-built monument in the Black Hills remains controversial.

A profile of the actress.

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

The M.I.T. Media Lab knew Epstein was a convicted sex offender. They asked for his help anyway, then covered their tracks.

A mystical stone guides a woman through her life.

Will Sterling Ruby’s new clothing line devalue his other work?

In 1997, a logger-turned-activist named Grant Hadwin cut down a very special tree. Then he bought a kayak and disappeared.

Public-health officials are confronting dangerous ideas as much as a deadly disease.

Where Big Tech goes to ask deep questions.

Transition House had to be true to its principles and then it had to leave them behind.

Kamala Harris makes her case.

A profile of Marlon Brando, 33, holed up in a hotel suite in Kyoto where he was filming Sayonara.

Once the bright young hope of the Latin-American left, Alan García was caught up in an epic corruption investigation.

A giant earthquake is coming to the Northwest. Unfortunately, no one knows when.

On motherhood, writing, and the death of a friend.

How an industrial designer became Apple’s greatest product.

When patients turn to crowdfunding for medical costs, whoever has the most heartrending story wins.

What the sensation of uncontrollable itch and the phantom limbs of amputees can tell us about how the brain works.