McCurley was living a quiet life in Fort Worth when new DNA evidence linked him to the notorious crime. Police suspect it wasn’t his first murder—or his last.
African American artists are taking wild west style from the fringes to the cultural mainstream
Eastman wrote challenging, political music with provocative titles. Much of that work was lost after he died, but historians have been piecing it back together.
Different chemically than it was a decade ago, the drug is creating a wave of severe mental illness and worsening America’s homelessness problem.
Germans have coined 1,200 words to describe COVID life, from hamsterkauf to coronazeit.
The author of Fates and Furies on being endorsed by Barack Obama, the climate crisis and discovering medieval humour for a new novel about 12th-century poet Marie de France
Soskin has written a memoir, spoken word albums and autobiographical songs which reflect her most painful and joyous moments.
From his secret compound, Richard Couto stages undercover buys to bring down unlicensed slaughterhouses. Police say they’d be happy to work with him, if only he’d follow the rules.
The 1945 Trinity test produced heat 10,000 times greater than the surface of the sun and spread fallout across the country.
Paul was in his 80s when someone called to say she was his daughter, conceived in a fertility clinic with his sperm. The only problem? He’d never donated any
Chris Wiley writes about the photographer Buck Ellison, who serves the moneyed up for public scrutiny on a veritable silver platter, as only one of their own could.
A VF investigation reveals that a self-styled knight and purported Nobel Prize nominee is actually a Wall Street washout, a deadbeat dad, and a con artist, repeatedly jailed by European authorities.
High temperatures during the Tokyo Olympics have been making headlines around the world. But the weather cooking the capital is not unusual. Japanese summers are notoriously sticky and sweaty, and for many Japanese people, spooky.
Despite having one of 2019’s biggest pop breakthroughs, Mabel was nearly broken by cruel comments. She talks about rebuilding her self-esteem in an unsparing industry
For decades, poppers have been the go-to sex drug for gay men. But where do they come from?
The previously missing pieces to the human genome could offer insights into aging, diseases such as cancer, as well as human diversity and evolution.
1. Sleeping under a weighted blanket can help reduce insomnia and anxiety.
Some critics have questioned the painting's authorship for decades.
The stress on the food system caused by the pandemic gave the Stewarts an idea: creating a commercial ranch in Arizona
After years of playing bimbo roles, Betty Gilpin found her voice in Glow. Now with an essay collection and a feminist take on Watergate, she’s free to make ‘weird choices’
A sweeping drug addiction risk algorithm has become central to how the US handles the opioid crisis. It may only be making the crisis worse.
Before we all spent our days on Zoom, the spiritual community used the power of its Facebook group and webcams to spread a gospel of eternal love—and build its founders’ business along the way. Is it a cult that has manipulated some members’ understandings of their own genders, as ex-followers allege, or the outermost extremes of influencing?
Rachel Aviv writes about convicted murderers who have been exonerated by DNA evidence but still remember crimes they didn’t commit.
Tech is usually the villain in stories about ADHD, but for many, it can be a lifeline, not an anchor.
Personal History by Gary Shteyngart: The constant discomfort of a genital injury creates a covenant of pain. It is impossible to think about anything else.
The late evolutionary biologist made a reputation—and enemies—by speaking out against the idea that genes are destiny. Science still needs people like him.
As the wilderness gets overrun, David Lesh has found an audience of emulators and antagonists, and become the most hated man in the Rockies, Nick Paumgarten writes.
If you ask someone why they wear blue jeans and they reply "because they’re comfortable," they are lying.
A mental health startup built its business on easy-to-use technology. Patients joined in droves. Then came a catastrophic data breach.
A rogue G.I.’s trial exposes the depths of a murderous far-right ideology — and the FBI’s complicity in spreading hate.
A study raises new concerns that AI will exacerbate disparities in health care. One issue? The study’s authors aren’t sure what cues are used by the algorithms.
Millennials grew up hating their bodies. Does Gen Z have to be the same?
150 years ago, North Carolina Governor William Woods Holden suppressed a white supremacist insurrection—and lost his job as a result.
Once it was a sideshow – but this year, Ukrainian soldiers competed with LGBTQ+ pioneers in a sport that’s being taken seriously
At a dangerous moment in Iran, the filmmaker stands accused by one of his former students, Rachel Aviv writes.
Was the death of Richard Lancelyn Green, the world’s foremost Sherlock Holmes expert, an elaborate suicide or a murder? David Grann reports, from 2004.
As the world settled into quarantined hibernation, a severe concussion rendered me, for the most part, unconscious.
RTS,S proves that shots can work against parasites. But to eradicate this disease, scientists say we need more than just one tool.
Born in Pittsburgh in 1859, Henry Ossawa Tanner moved to Paris, where he found "nobody knows or cares what was the complexion of my forebears." Recent conservation work explores his artistic process.
In the mid-nineteen-twenties, a double murder in New Jersey became a media obsession, and helped define a fledgling magazine’s reporting and style.
Fifty-five million years ago, Earth’s thermostat shot up—and life dramatically changed. Here’s what history can teach us about our modern temperature surge.
Sleep Like Your Ancestors - Historians now believe our ancestors practiced "segmented sleep," or two sleep periods, divided by an hour of wakefulness.
From his secret compound, Richard Couto stages undercover buys to bring down unlicensed slaughterhouses. Police say they’d be happy to work with him, if only he’d follow the rules.
The 19th-century African American writer Charles Chesnutt’s enduring story of ingenuity and hardship
It may be little more than grains of weathered rock, and can be found on deserts and beaches around the world, but sand is also the world’s second most consumed natural resource.
