“It’s beyond strange that so many humans are clueless about how they should feed themselves. Every wild species on the planet knows how to do it; presumably ours did, too, before our oversized brains found new ways to complicate things. Now, we’re the only species that can be baffled about the ‘right’ way to eat.”

Why Donald Trump’s closest aide is leaving the White House.

Marcus Hutchins stopped one of the most dangerous cyberattacks ever. Then the FBI arrested him.

The life story of Travis the chimp and the family of tow truck operators who raised him like a human child before it all ended in tragedy.

“You’ve got your whole life in front of you. You’re pretty, you’ve got this house — well, you don’t have this house anymore. This house is my house.”

He holds incredible power over women’s rights. New evidence shows he lied repeatedly about his history of harassment to get there.

When rescuers found Nathan Carman after seven days at sea, his mother had vanished without a trace. Did he kill her — and, years earlier, another member of his family?

“I always walk away from an interview — no matter how well it went — knowing that there’s so much that I don’t know about that person.”

The family that pioneered the oil industry in America wants to expose what Exxon hid from the public about climate change.

An interview with the activist.

Hurricane Maria was a natural catastrophe. The aftermath is a man-made disaster.

The town welcomed hundreds of Somali refugees. Then a private militia decided to go “ISIS hunting.”

“To fight for my son, I have to argue that he should never have been born.”

A profile of Cardi B.

With your mom.

Examining the future of the massive social media site.

A profile of Harvey Weinstein.

For decades, “abnormal” embryos were thrown away during the IVF process. Then some pioneering doctors — and patients — decided to use them anyway.

Ellen Pao recounts her own lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

The ’90s icon and Nine Inch Nails frontman talks about listening to music, his own and others, in 2017.

Video-game designer Zoë Quinn in the aftermath of Gamergate, an act of web harassment with world-altering implications.

What’s a writer to do when the audacity dwindles?

An obituary.

What happened after an unarmed 18-year-old named Ramarley Graham was shot and killed by a New York City police officer.

How a streaming empire has changed the way the world has sex.