Meet the Edward Snowden of European soccer.

Despite what dementia has stolen from the cerebral creator of Deadwood, it has given his work a new sense of urgency.

The case against “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh.

Christianity formed my deepest instincts, and I have been walking away from it for half my life.

On life in New York with an impossible neighbor named Jared.

The roots musician is inspired by the evolving legacy of the black string band.

On losing your mom.

A profile of the actor following a car accident that left him briefly in a coma and ultimately with a settlement so large he never has to work again.

The President’s former lawyer, and the fall guy in his web of misconduct, looks like a victim as well as a perpetrator.

A profile of Edna Buchanan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning crime reporter for the Miami Herald during its heyday.

Skiing and partying at the sport’s most dangerous race.

The psychology behind our limitations of reason.

An interview with the novelist.

How Craig Carton, a morning host on WFAN, ended up running a Ponzi scheme.

A profile of a dresser of celebrities.

Millions of Americans have taken antidepressants for many years. What happens when it’s time to stop?

A young paleontologist may have discovered a record of the most significant event in the history of life on Earth.

The state loses a football field’s worth of land every hour and a half. Now engineers are in a race to prevent it from sinking into oblivion.

Does the ubiquitous dance troupe really present five thousand years of civilization reborn?

People who are short on relatives can hire a husband, a mother, a grandson. The resulting relationships can be more real than you’d expect.

Two brothers interact with a peculiar visitor.

A profile of the director and actor.

How Niki Nakayama’s kaiseki restaurant became a highly coveted reservation in L.A.

Fox News has always been partisan. But has it become propaganda?

How can you know if you’re about to get replaced by an invading algorithm or an augmented immigrant? “If your job can be easily explained, it can be automated,” Anders Sandberg, of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute, tells Oppenheimer. “If it can’t, it won’t.” (Rotten luck for people whose job description is “Predict the future.”)