Geneticists have begun using old bones to make sweeping claims about the distant past. But their revisions to the human story are making some scholars of prehistory uneasy.

A profile of the woman who wants to declutter the world.

The agonies of being overweight—or running a diet company—in a culture that likes to pretend it only cares about health, not size.

There was no doubt: Jeremy Gross had brutally murdered a convenience store clerk. All that was left to decide was his punishment. Death or life without parole? The story of a capital murder trial, as seen from the jury box.

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

African Elephants have been killing people, raping rhinos, and exhibiting uncharacteristically aggressive behavior. An investigation reveals deep similarities between elephants’ and humans’ reaction to childhood trauma.

What does it mean for the rest of life on Earth?

At the Jimmy Buffett-branded community, a hint at how increasingly long-lived species might choose to spend their extra decades.

New research is zeroing in on a biochemical basis for the placebo effect — possibly opening a Pandora’s box for Western medicine.

For two decades, domestic counterterrorism strategy has ignored the rising danger of far-right extremism. In the atmosphere of willful indifference, a virulent movement has grown and metastasized.

Saudi Arabia thought a bombing campaign would quickly crush its enemies in Yemen. But three years later, the Houthis refuse to give up, even as 14 million people face starvation.

The Venezuelan maestro of the Los Angeles Philharmonic conjures joy in difficult times.

Could an ex-convict become an attorney?

When Japanese men in their teens and twenties shut themselves in their rooms, sometimes for a period of years, one way to lure them out is a hired “big sister.”

She’s trying to keep comedy alive at a moment when Hollywood—and its audience—can’t seem to crack a smile.

A Philadelphia neighborhood is the largest open-air narcotics market for heroin on the East Coast. Addicts come from all over, and many never leave.

Should art be a battleground for social justice?

Riding along with the Mets broadcast trio, the main reason to watch the team.

A profile.

“We need a new language for talking about poverty. ‘Nobody who works should be poor,’ we say. That’s not good enough. Nobody in America should be poor, period.”

Black excellence in the land of tennis.

The 20-year-old is poised to burst into the top tier of women’s tennis. Can she also burst Japan’s expectations of what it means to be Japanese?

From HBO to ‘Star Wars’ to Shakespeare, he has discovered how to excel beyond tidy genres.

The strange life of a 16-year-old model.

Almond growing in California is a $7.6 billion industry that wouldn’t be possible without the 30 billion bees (and hundreds of human beekeepers) who keep the trees pollinated — and whose very existence is in peril.