Red Dead Redemption 2

On the making of a centuries-old obsession at the heart of American national identity.

The video game offers a realistic portrayal of illness and public health in the 19th-century American West.

Poke around the game’s fictional South and you’ll find cross-burning Klansmen, whom you are free to kill.

A video game portrays the Wild West’s famous detective agency as violent enforcers of order. But the modern-day company disagrees.