Monsters, Inc. John Malkovich is about to play a dictator. Time to talk bad guys

Stone Cold

Philadelphia—It was a shocking display of mass desecration. In late

Babylon by Bus

Mosul, Iraq—These are the lucky ones— Iraqis fortunate enough to

Gun Runners

Pretoria, South Africa—When South Africans took to the streets, marching

Pipeline of Tears

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PROBING THE RUSSIAN BEAR

How will Congress investigate Moscow’s attempts to influence the 2016 election?

Pennies From Haven

IF BREXIT NEGOTIATIONS GO BADLY, THE U.K. HAS A FALLBACK—BECOMING THE NEXT SWITZERLAND

INVISIBLE BRUTES

Many Indians say their country is dealing with a rape crisis. So why is there still no national registry for sex offenders?

STARSHIP STUPORS

Egypt’s economy is in crisis. So why is the government spending millions on a fancy new space agency?

OUR OWN WORST ENEMY

FROM HIS CLUMSY COMMENTS TO THE TRAVEL BAN, DONALD TRUMP IS GIVING JIHADIS WHAT THEY WANT

THE JESUS GULAG

A Christian school for troubled youth was supposed to treat teens for drug addiction and mental health problems. But its extreme, fundamentalist program trapped them in a brutal world of forced nudity and sadistic beatings

THE SMALLER BANG THEORY

Additive manufacturing may result in safer, cheaper rocket fuel

GOLDMAN SACKED

AI is about to kill most of Wall Street’s fat cats. Try not to cheer

READING THE PAIN

Clinicians are terrible at predicting suicides, but AI can nail it

TICK TALK

SCIENTISTS TICKLE THE DEVILISH QUESTION OF WHY TICKS DON’T GET LYME DISEASE

THE SCIENCE PRINCESS

Pushing gender equality instead of her crown

Midnight, Mississippi Go on the road with one of America’s acutest writers

IN JUNE 1970, Joan Didion went on the road. Aged

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The New Craftsmen started life in 2012 in a London

Frantzén’s Kitchen, Hong Kong

In November, two-Michelin-starred Swedish chef Björn Frantzén launched his first

Light Fantastic

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Levison Wood, explorer, steps out with Eric Newby

“Good travel writing should read like iction—not just a day-to-day

On the Streets A lost city is refound by Jacqueline Woodson

WHEN American author Jacqueline Woodson was growing up in Bushwick—

Alone On the Range Kristen Stewart fills Montana’s empty spaces in Certain Women

KELLY REICHARDT’S sixth feature, Certain Women, is set in Montana,

Group think

THIS SPRING visitors to the Whitney Museum of American Art

‘Marilina in a Tiled Room’ Cooper & Gorfer

“PHOTOGRAPHY IS not like painting. There is a creative fraction