On homelessness in San Francisco.

On the twilight of the Iranian Revolution.

On the public-health risks of the American prison system.

Health-care workers have been on the job throughout the pandemic. What can they teach us about the safest way to lift a lockdown?

The explorers who set one of the last meaningful records on earth.

On long-distance grief.

A profile of Marlon Brando, 33, holed up in a hotel suite in Kyoto where he was filming Sayonara.

To understand the President’s path to the 2020 election, look at what he has provided the country’s executive class.

The initial coronavirus outbreaks on the East and West Coasts emerged at roughly the same time. But the danger was communicated very differently.

A front-line physician at Elmhurst Hospital sees how closely socioeconomic status is tied to the disease, and tries to help patients who are dying without their families.

The story of one of the great final acts in sports history.

Mitch McConnell’s refusal to rein in the President is looking riskier than ever.

A profile of the doctor who has run the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for 36 years.

The life and work of a Manhattan psychoanalyst.

Renée Bach went to Uganda to save children—but many in her care died. Was she responsible?

Sharon Stern devoted herself to Butoh, a Buddhist-influenced Japanese dance. Did her mentor lead her down a dangerous path?

An interview with Richard A. Epstein of the Hoover Institution.

Forty-five days of avoiding the coronavirus.

Snow science against the avalanche.

For years, the elusive singer-songwriter has been working, at home, on an album with a strikingly raw and percussive sound. But is she prepared to release it into the world?

The Spanish-flu epidemic of 1918 reached virtually every country, killing so many people so quickly that some cities were forced to convert streetcars into hearses.

A statewide movement wants to remove populist Mike Dunleavy from office.

The arson case that may have led Texas to execute an innocent man.

Mountain athletes face death and grief more often than most of us. One therapist thinks he can help.

Two men were sent to prison for killing a French tourist in Manhattan in 1987. Can they overturn their convictions?