Malfunctions caused two deadly crashes. But an industry that puts unprepared pilots in the cockpit is just as guilty.

Elite schools say they’re looking for academic excellence and diversity. But their thirst for tuition revenue means that wealth trumps all.

On the nature of coincidence.

He helped build an artists’ utopia. Now he faces trial for 36 deaths there.

Do spirituality and self-help have a political constituency?

The W.N.B.A. is putting on some of the best pro basketball in America.

A profile of Tyshawn Jones, “one of the most exciting skateboarders in a generation.”

A lawsuit against Harvard forces students to choose sides.

“Neil Young is crankier than a hermit being stung by bees. He hates Spotify. He hates Facebook. He hates Apple. He hates Steve Jobs. He hates what digital technology is doing to music.”

How the first Williams sister changed the course of women’s tennis.

On the “white gold” that fueled slavery.

Our founding ideals of liberty and equality were false when they were written. For generations, black Americans have fought to make them true.

He dreamed of educating the children in his village. But soon he learned that it was dangerous for the Rohingya to dream.

An interview with the actor.

The author at 84.

For eight hours last fall, Paradise, Calif., became a zone at the limits of the American imagination — and a preview of the American future.

The author teaches a college class about what it means to be white in America, but interrogating that question as a black woman in the real world is much harder to do.

“Three giant telecoms are gonna make and own all the content, and they’re not gonna want anyone else to make it.”

In experiments on pig organs, scientists at Yale made a discovery that could someday challenge our understanding of what it means to die.

For more than 20 years, Judith Sheindlin has dominated daytime ratings—by making justice in a complicated world look easy.

With state legislatures passing new abortion restrictions, the Mississippi Reproductive Freedom Fund follows its own compass on how to best help clients.

The best women’s soccer team in the world fights for equal pay.

The retired senator Mike Gravel gave two young fans his Twitter password and permission to campaign in his name. It might be a stunt—or the future of politics.

A conversation about aging, inspiration and why she refuses to cede control.

Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico’s “monkey island.” The surviving primates could help scientists learn about the psychological response to traumatizing events.