Against all predictions, the Taliban took the Afghan capital in a matter of hours. This is the story of why and what came after, by a reporter and photographer who witnessed it all.

In 1936, Karp Lykov whisked his family into the Siberian wilderness to escape Bolshevik persecution. They remained there, alone, until discovered by a helicopter crew in 1978.

On Manson bloggers, murder fandom and being a sad, dark teen.

“I never thought about ending my pregnancy. Instead, at 19, I erased the future I had imagined for myself.”

Pakistan has received global praise for the design and maintenance of a vast system that holds the information of 98% of the country’s population. For some, however, it is making normal life impossible.

Ahmaud Arbery went out for a jog and was gunned down in the street. How running fails Black America.

A profile of philosopher Timothy Morton.

It started with a candle in an abandoned warehouse. It ended with temperatures above 3,000 degrees and the men of the Worcester Fire Department in a fight for their lives.

The Brooklyn Nets were built to be an unbeatable superteam of eccentric basketball superstars. Will they dominate the N.B.A. playoffs?

Mehran Karimi Nasseri was without a country, a family or a home. Then he landed at Terminal One at Charles de Gaulle Airport. The article that inspired The Terminal.

An adventure on an Alaskan glacier with a new best friend.

Daniel Kish is entirely sightless. So how can he ride a bike on busy streets? Go hiking for days alone? By using a technique borrowed from bats.

On the writer W.G. Sebald.

What happens when trying to escape poverty means separating from your family at 13?

German painting’s arch-traditionalist has a brush with controversy.

With only a single breath, Alexey Molchanov, history’s most daring freediver, is reaching improbable depths—and discovering a new kind of enlightenment as he conquers one of the world’s wildest sports.

The story of Theranos.

When she was a 15-year-old runaway, the writer was nearly killed by a truck driver. Twenty-seven years later, she investigates whether her attacker was truck stop serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades, who often kept his victims chained in the back of his truck for weeks before killing and dumping them.

Did people first come to this continent by land or by sea?

In the countryside, the endless killing of civilians turned women against the occupiers who claimed to be helping them.

They thought that they’d found the perfect New York apartment. They weren’t alone.

A sketch artist and a grieving mother set out to solve a cold case. The more they dug, the more terrifying the truth became.

Inside the political battle over reproductive rights in Texas a decade ago.

Why did Christie Smythe upend her life and stability for Martin Shkreli, one of the least-liked men in the world?

A man is presumed murdered. In this town of 12, everyone is a possible suspect.