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

A confrontation with masculinity gone awry.

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.

The answer to the disparity in death rates has everything to do with the lived experience of being a black woman in America.

The world’s largest jewelry retailer was a cesspool of harassment and unfair treatment of women who worked there.

In three decades of advocating for prison abolition, the activist and scholar has helped transform how people think about criminal justice.

Inside Nxivm.

How Rupert Murdoch’s empire of influence remade the world.

Using several email addresses and a lot of exclamation points, teenager Jonathan Lebed worked finance message boards in the morning before school and made almost a million bucks. Then he made the head of the S.E.C. look like a fool.

It was just a kayaking trip. Then it upended their lives.

The particular sheen of America by Amtrak.

An interview with the comedian.

An interview with Meek Mill.

Are some celebrity mediums fooling their audience members by reading social media pages in advance? A group of online vigilantes is out to prove it.

Nannies and housecleaners have some of the hardest, least secure jobs in the nation. Now they’re organizing to change that.

These women want the right to compete in big-wave contests—and get paid as much as men do.

In the poorest congressional district in the country, where thousands of people are arrested each year, one former cop with a complicated past made high-profile cases fall apart by insisting that the ends justified his means.

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.