CATEGORIES

RECKLESS DISREGARD

Do our media-friendly defamation rules hurt our democracy?

DRIVEN AROUND THE BEND

The real cost of our cars

HUNTING THE HUNTERS

A conservation N.G.O. infiltrates wildlife-trafficking rings to bring them down

THE BLING KING

Philipp Plein's maximalist designs

TRANSLATION

I grew up multilingual and learned in earliest childhood to switch effortlessly between languages

THE REVOLVING DOOR

What a subway killing reveals about mental illness and homelessness

GET THE MESSAGE

\"BlackBerry\" and \"Chile '76.\"

CAVE ART

The Louisville Orchestra goes underground with Yo-Yo Ma.

CLICK-WITTED

Ben Smith's adventures in Web traffic.

THE VOICE

Martin Luther King, Jr., and the perilous power of respectability.

THE PLANNED PARENTHOOD PROBLEM

Is the group too cautious and corporate, forcing independent abortion providers to take the biggest risks?

GUT FEELINGS

The filmmakers trying to capture experience—from inside the body.

IS NOT DRINKING A PROBLEM FOR YOU?

A week ago, I never would’ve told you that I had a problem with not drinking. I wasn’t one of those people who got messy, cracking open another LaCroix and failing to hide their burps behind a hand. My sobriety had never caused me to commit a social faux pas, like asking friends if I could contribute less to a bill since I’d ordered only a mint tea.

THE GHOSTWRITER

Prince Harry's collaborator on life in the margins.

EARLY BLOOMER

Georgia O’Keeffe before she was famous

HOME FIRES

Why the flames kindled at Waco are still burning

THE MAN IN THE ROOM

Paul Schrader’s new film, “Master Gardener,” completes a trilogy. But he wants to make one more

THE FUGITIVE PRINCESSES

Fleeing a life of privilege and brutality in Dubai

SAD DADS

How the National captures the unmagnificent lives of adults

MAKING OF

After receiving backlash for its partnership with trans actor and social media star Dylan Mulvaney, Budweiser has released a new patriotic ad featuring its signature Clydesdale horse mascot

KING ME

Charles tried to be a philosopher-prince. But a British monarch must keep quiet

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

When Tucker Carlson was fired from Fox News last week—so suddenly that he reportedly learned about it only ten minutes before the world did— the most acute notes of regret came from young conservative intellectuals who had seen his nightly hour of programming as an interesting, and perhaps essential, experiment in what right-wing populism could be

GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN

Karl Lagerfeld, who died in 2019, once said, “I am very much down to earth. Just not this earth.” During his seven-decade career, Lagerfeld designed heavenly collections for Balmain, Chloé, Fendi, Patou, his eponymous label, and, perhaps most famously, for Chanel, whose Fall/Winter 2014-15 haute-couture runway featured the opulent coat pictured here. Starting May 5, it joins some hundred and fifty garments on view in the exhibition “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty,” at the Met’s Costume Institute

Zonked

The exhausting history of fatigue.

The Language Game

Luis von Ahn turned Duolingo into the world's most popular education app. How much can it teach us?

Brokeback Mountain in Manhattan

Shouts & Murmurs

PARENT TRAPS

“Beau Is Afraid” and “Everything Went Fine.”

GUIDING LIGHT

“Regretfully, So the Birds Are” and “White Girl in Danger.”

WALK THE LINE

In Dennis Lehane’s “Small Mercies,” the Boston busing protests are murder.

HIGH ACHIEVERS

How taking drugs changed the science of the self.