The average digital device can display only about a third of all the hues that our eyes perceive. What is being left out?

A growing movement of sex workers and activists is making the decriminalization of sex work a feminist issue.

On a grey January morning at 9.15, residents of the Oaks shelter for the homeless started lining up, coffee mugs in hand, at a yellow linoleum counter. At half past the hour, the pour began. The Oaks’ residents are hard-core alcoholics. They line up to get what most people would consider the very last thing they need: an hourly mug of alcohol.

The story of a mysterious mound, and what was inside.

Decades into the war on drugs, the world doesn't have much to show for it. The US is now in the middle of an opioid painkiller and heroin epidemic that has killed tens of thousands each year, despite tough-on-crime policies enforced under the drug war. Mexico has suffered from tens of thousands of deaths annually as the black market for drugs finances drug cartels that are so powerful they can wage war against governments and conquer cities.

When his three children were young, Warren Buffett installed a dime slot machine on the third floor of the family’s house, in Omaha, Nebraska. The objective was to convey the dangers of gambling, but it also meant the children’s allowance remained in his hands. “I could then give my children any allowance they wanted, as long as it was in dimes, and I’d have it all back by nightfall,” he remarked once at a Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting.

Jordan wanted to build an unpredictable trap. An 11-year-old in dark horn-­rimmed glasses, Jordan is a devotee of Minecraft, the computer game in which you make things out of virtual blocks, from dizzying towers to entire cities. He recently read “The Maze Runner,” a sci-fi thriller in which teenagers live inside a booby-­trapped labyrinth, and was inspired to concoct his own version — something he then would challenge his friends to navigate.

There is a smug style in American liberalism. It has been growing these past decades. It is a way of conducting politics, predicated on the belief that American life is not divided by moral difference or policy divergence — not really — but by the failure of half the country to know what's good for them. In 2016, the smug style has found expression in media and in policy, in the attitudes of liberals both visible and private, providing a foundational set of assumptions...

Despite all that has been written about the Beatles, a mystery remains: how did they do what they did?

Throughout her career she has displayed instincts on foreign policy that are more aggressive than those of President Obama — and most Democrats.

Are hemp oil businesses peddling a miracle drug to epilepsy patients, or is it just snake oil?

After years of avoiding love, I found a match that seemed almost too perfect. We were practically walking down the aisle before I realized it really was too good to be true. By Annalisa Merelli. (June ’15)

In conversation with Jerry Saltz, the celebrity makes a case for his art.

The investigator in Syria had made the drive perhaps a hundred times, always in the same battered truck, never with any cargo. It was forty miles to the border, through eleven rebel checkpoints, where the soldiers had come to think of him as a local, a lawyer whose wartime misfortunes included a commute on their section of the road. Sometimes he brought them snacks or water, and he made sure to thank them for protecting civilians...

Niki de Saint Phalle’s sculpture park, dreamed up in an asylum, was the capstone of a tempestuous life in art. By Ariel Levy.

Even as the militant group loses ground in Iraq, many Sunnis say they have no hope for peace. One family’s story shows why. By Anand Gopal.

Chino hits the ground. He was led to the edge of the wall by two polleros. The smugglers helped him jump. But they wouldn’t be joining him on the other side. “You have a phone?” the polleros had asked when they picked him up earlier that day. “Yes, I have a phone,” he told them. “Look, this is really easy,” one of them explained. “You have to jump and run. You are going to see some houses at the end, you have to run toward the houses.”

An open investigation into the disappearance of 243 men, women and children. Where are they? And why does nobody know?

At Tampa Bay farm-to-table restaurants, you’re being fed fiction. By Laura Reiley

On a crisp Saturday in November 2014, a black Mercedes SUV pulled onto the tarmac of an Austrian specialty aviation company 30 miles south of Vienna. Employees of the firm, Airborne Technologies, which specialized in designing and equipping small aircraft with wireless surveillance platforms, had been ordered to work that weekend because one of the company’s investors was scheduled to inspect their latest project.