Against all predictions, the Taliban took the Afghan capital in a matter of hours. This is the story of why and what came after, by a reporter and photographer who witnessed it all.

“I never thought about ending my pregnancy. Instead, at 19, I erased the future I had imagined for myself.”

Across the country, an unregulated system is severing parents from children, who often end up abandoned by the agencies that are supposed to protect them.

How the real estate boom left Black neighborhoods behind.

In Austin and cities around the country, prices are skyrocketing, forcing regular people to act like speculators. When will it end?

With her new book, the model tries to escape the oppressions of the male gaze. So our writer is keeping some of her secrets.

The pandemic offered an unprecedented opportunity for the researchers who study why and how we dream.

A New Yorker who started riding during the pandemic travels to the heart of biker culture.

White sharks are hunting along Cape Cod’s beaches. What will it take to keep people safe?

For half a century, she has taken the things we know best— our bodies, our rituals, our nation — and shown us how strange they really are.

On those rare instances when I would think about having a child, I assumed her life would be less complicated than my own. The stubborn optimism of the immigrant dictates that while your own life often shows just how quickly things can get catastrophically worse, American progress remains immutable.

Art often draws inspiration from life—but what happens when it’s your life?

What happens when trying to escape poverty means separating from your family at 13?

Increasingly worn down by the pandemic, a dad goes to a baseball game.

How India disenfranchises Muslims.

During the brief moment when the pandemic was receding and we could be together again, all we wanted to do was move our bodies.

A profile of the comedian, who died Tuesday.

Outdated textbooks, not enough teachers, no ventilation — for millions of kids like Harvey Ellington, the public-education system has failed them their whole lives.

Terry Albury, an idealistic F.B.I. agent, grew so disillusioned by the war on terror that he was willing to leak classified documents—and go to prison for doing it.

Eric Coomer had an election-security job at Dominion Voting Systems. He also had posted anti-Trump messages on Facebook. What happened next ruined his life.

“A quarantine facial-hair experiment led me to a deep consideration of my Blackness.”

It seemed like an easy crime to stop: protected Indonesian rainforest, cut for coffee farms. But a globalized economy can undermine even the best-laid plans.

In Taipei, young people like Nancy Tao Chen Ying watched as the Hong Kong protests were brutally extinguished. Now they wonder what’s in their future.

The enduring career of the megastar no one really knows.

A nation’s uncertain future.