Giraffes are the "forgotten megafauna," said the executive director of the Giraffe Conservation Foundation...

He said that he always tried to draw like a child. The portrait photo he engineered of his adult self holding hands with a life-size cutout photo of himself at age six shows how seriously he took this idea. The goal was to draw like a child who never stopped drawing that way even as he aged and his subject matter became not childish...

The energy and tech capitals of the U.S., Houston and San Francisco have little in common, but in the coming decades they are likely to become America's dominant cities...

After a nine-hour day working at a citrus packing plant, her body covered in a sheen of fruit wax and dust, there is nothing Angelica Gallegos wants more than a hot shower, with steam to help clear her throat and lungs.

“I can just picture it, that feeling of finally being clean — really refreshed and clean,” Ms. Gallegos, 37, said one recent evening.

But she has not had running water for more than five months — nor is there any tap water in her near future...

When Kenneth Jarecke photographed an Iraqi man burned alive, he thought it would change the way Americans saw the Gulf War. But the media wouldn't run the picture...

...The Gary Hart scandal certainly merits discussing, even at this distance. It’s about sex and politics and journalistic ethics. It makes us wonder: What’s fair game for reporters and how much do voters care—or deserve—to know?...

The story of America's most pliable, pernicious, irrepressible myth...

Last month, the writer, actor and producer Lena Dunham started an ambitious project. Nearly 600 people responded to an open call for video auditions on her website, including a sand artist, a ukulele player, a cappella singers, gymnasts, performance artists and stand-up comics, even some exceptionally charismatic babies...

The Middle East is complicated...There have been a number of increasingly complicated attempts to illustrate the web of relationships in the Middle East. Below are nine of our favorites...

Jeff Bezos rarely visits The Washington Post...One year after his acquisition — Bezos purchased the Post from the Graham family, for $250 million, a year ago today, on Oct. 1, 2013 — media analysts remain puzzled by his decision to buy the paper. There has been no major digital innovation, no radical new product launch, no change to delivery or presentation, and no promise of any specific plans for the future...