As wildfires raged across California, the photographer’s surreal landscapes put my new home in perspective.

The leafy plant has long been associated with cocaine. Can an ardent new drug policy transform the plant into the world’s next miracle cure?

He offered me a fist bump, then seemed to reconsider, and clasped me in a masculine, endearingly chaste hug. “My brother!” he said. “Your wife is a very lucky woman. I hope you get home safe to her, and happy.”

Trailing a religious fighter in an Iraqi province where ISIS is an existential threat, looking to learn what drives men and women to take bullets for one another.

Felix Garcia, a Guatemalan immigrant, is scheduled to be deported today. This is his story.

I am so afraid of being troubled and alone at the end of this world

I take the empty injector and bring it to my neck. I hit the trigger and stab and hope maybe I’ll get something. I hit the trigger again.

Kenneth Goldsmith and Mikkel Rosengaard in conversation.

Female Fighters series: The activist-scholar talks about black women and militancy, and whether guns have a place in struggles for liberation.

The acclaimed writer talks recovery, responsibility, and reforming the culture by which we treat addiction.