Young climate activists like Jamie Margolin are building a movement while growing up — planning mass protests from childhood bedrooms and during school.

How do you write about Hollywood’s most self-referential screenwriter at a destabilizing moment in history? It takes more than one draft.

If true justice and equality are ever to be achieved in the United States, the country must finally take seriously what it owes black Americans.

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

Trying to parent my Black teenagers through protest and pandemic.

“I don’t think [the news media] has ever had a good handle on a political moment. It’s not designed for that. It’s designed for engagement.”

Anytime the racial temperature goes up and hell pays a visit to earth, the disappointment takes a holiday. And you fight. You fight because you’re tired. Yet you’re tired because you’ve been fighting. For so long. In waves, in loops, in vacuums, in vain.

William Barr’s state of emergency.

A profile of Broadway producer Jeffrey Seller, whose show makes more than $500,000 in profit every week.

Cancer has taken his voice, but the unlikeliest movie star in Hollywood history still has a lot he wants to say.

Can genetic engineering bring back the American Chestnut?

For the Zulu club, a black social organization in New Orleans, Mardi Gras was a joy. The coronavirus made it a tragedy.

The chef/writer behind New York City’s Prune revises her original dreams for the restaurant in the wake of closing because of COVID.

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

A Covid diary: This is what I saw as the pandemic engulfed our hospitals.

National economies collapse; species go extinct; political movements rise and fizzle. But—somehow, for some reason—Weird Al keeps rocking.

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?