One woman’s account of clandestine meetings, financial transactions, and legal pacts designed to hide an extramarital affair.

The interactions of inmates and a teacher at a women's prison.

How a solitary trek across Antarctica became a singular test of character.

Flying straight from the future.

Ray Bowman and Billy Kirkpatrick, who began boosting together as teenagers, were arrested only twice during their prolific partnership. The first time was for stealing 38 records from a K-Mart in 1974. The second arrest came in 1997. In between, Bowman and Kirkpatrick robbed 27 banks, including the single biggest haul in United States history: $4,461,681 from the Seafirst Bank in suburban Tacoma.

A major black novelist made a remarkable début. How did he disappear?

How the President’s son-in-law, despite his inexperience in diplomacy and his lack of security clearance, became Beijing’s primary point of interest.

Protests, populism, and progressivism all clashed in a battle royal. But what really drives election results?

Hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the U.S. may face violence and murder in their home countries. What happens when they are forced to return?

Life and debt as a young writer in New York.

A profile of football coach Jon Gruden.

On Long Island, unaccompanied minors are caught between the violence of MS-13 and the fear of deportation.

Leïla Slimani’s best-seller explores the dark relationship of a mother and her babysitter.

What it means to be beautiful in the most populous country on earth.

Inside Eva Moskowitz’s quest to combine rigid discipline with a progressive curriculum.

The haunted past of Amy Bishop, a University of Alabama neurobiologist who shot six colleagues during a staff meeting.

Boko Haram, climate change, predatory armies, and extreme hunger are converging on a marginalized population in Central Africa.

CO2 could soon reach levels that, it’s widely agreed, will lead to catastrophe.

A former journalist, equipped with an algorithm and the largest collection of murder records in the country, finds patterns in crime.

The dramatic imbalance in pay and power has created the conditions for abuse.

In dozens of criminal trials, prosecutors have put the same gun in the hands of more than one defendant.

On the thriving small town of Orange City, Iowa and what it can teach us about what it means when Americans decide to leave home or stay put.

On the relative plausibility of impossible beings.

Kurdish revolutionaries helped the U.S. expel the Islamic State from its capital city. Will we soon abandon them?

Following the fraudsters who use gods and myth to steal from the elderly.