At 28, I thought my life was pretty settled. Nope.

A dispatch from a caretaker.

It began with a series of anonymous sexual-harassment complaints that the writer knew were false. But the truth was far stranger.

A season with the New England Patriots’ 37-year-old quarterback.

Katrina’s floodwaters had knocked out the power. Evacuation of the sickest patients seemed impossible. So the doctors at Memorial did what they thought was right, even if they knew it was a crime.

How a dating app helped a generation of Chinese come out of the closet.

Hundreds of thousands of single-family homes are now in the hands of giant companies—squeezing renters for revenue and putting the American dream even further out of reach.

Medical examiners provide crucial insights into public health and safety. What happens when we don’t have enough of them?

Can the king of ultrarunning conquer a race as short as the marathon?

A profile of Jenny Offill, whose latest novel addresses climate collapse.

The inside story of the president and Deutsche Bank, his lender of last resort.

As the city is transformed by gentrification and inequality, comedies have begun depicting it as a place of magical connection.

When Zulhumar Isaac’s parents disappeared amid a wave of detentions of ethnic minorities, she had to play a perilous game with the state to get them back.

On the shared life of Tatiana and Krista Hogan:

The girls’ doctors believe it is entirely possible that the sensory input that one girl receives could somehow cross that bridge into the brain of the other. One girl drinks, another girl feels it.

On Rudolph Giuliani and the enduring power of shamelessness.

The enigmatic leader of the U.A.E. may soon emerge as the region’s most powerful figure. What does he really want?

A new genetic engineering technology could help eliminate malaria and stave off extinctions — if humanity decides to unleash it.

“I wanted to be prepared for the worst nature could throw at me. But the real threat turned out to be human.”

Home-funeral guides believe that families can benefit from tending to—and spending time with—the bodies of their deceased.

In 1964, with “Seven Up!” Michael Apted stumbled into making what has become the most profound documentary series in the history of cinema. Fifty-five years later, the project is reaching its conclusion.

The first magazine profile of the actor in more than 20 years.

The film is a rare portrayal of black people in our fullness—angry and frightened and hurt, euphoric and loving and free.

Fred Rogers wasn’t just a brilliant educator and a profoundly moral person. He was an uncompromising artist.

Caveh Zahedi’s abject, self-defeating, ethically questionable, maddeningly original approach to documentary.

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