Why do America’s black gay and bisexual men have a higher H.I.V. rate than any country in the world?

A minute-by-minute account of one of the worst sailing disasters in American history.

In 1993, his rookie season, more than 1,700 boys were named after Shaquille O’Neal. Now they’ve grown up.

The residents of Colorado Springs undertook a radical experiment in government. Here’s what they got.

As a father succumbs to lung cancer, his son tries to recreate his personality in the form of a chatbot.

The Department of Energy is in chaos and it is putting the world at risk.

A first-hand account of San Francisco in the hours and days after the devastating 1906 earthquake.

Retracing the steps of the most devastating wildfire in California history.

He had the gear, the charm, the trail stories. He found his marks in outdoorsy women.

The rise and fall of the “most far-flung, most organized, and most brazen example of homosexual extortion in the nation’s history.”

In 2015, two bright Mississippi State college students started dating. Months later, they were planning their life together—alongside ISIS.

What it takes to be the best alpine skier in the world.

How a fight to stop a potentially toxic Costco chicken plant in Nebraska made common cause of small-town environmentalists and anti-Muslim xenophobes.

Teaching Emily Dickinson at Santa Fe Community College in Gainesville, Florida.

A feat of elegant design wowed elite architects and promised to bring education to poor children in Nigeria. Then it collapsed.

The connections he made at a 2013 pageant in Russia may have helped give him the Presidency.

Thousands of internal documents help explain how, through brutality and bureaucracy, the Islamic State stayed in power for so long.

How a journalist who wrote a seminal account of police brutality during the 1967 race riots in Newark wound up on the wrong side of the law.

One mysterious death, then another, and another — all in the same house. The first two written off as a tragic coincidence, until the third shattered doubts.

Junior’s personal life is in shambles, Robert Mueller looms large, and it’s never been trickier to be the president’s son.

“In fact, in private conversations, Obama rarely mentions Trump at all. Those who’ve visited the office he’s leased from the World Wildlife Fund in Washington’s West End say he’s eager to talk for hours about the world’s ills. When informed about the latest presidential tweetstorms aimed at him, he chuckles and changes the subject. One friend of Obama’s recalled that after a 45-minute meeting that avoided the subject of Trump entirely, the pair ducked into an aide’s office and saw on television that the president was claiming to have been absolved in the Russia inquiry. Obama’s eyes flicked toward the chyron and his face took on a decidedly bemused aspect for a beat before he turned back to their conversation as if nothing had happened.”

Monika Glennon had one brief exchange with a complete stranger in a Facebook comment section. That stranger destroyed her life.

In 1982, a family disappeared from their Los Angeles home. A writer and former neighbor is still trying to put the pieces together.

In many homicides, police believe they know the killer’s identity but can’t get a witness to cooperate.

The untold story of how anger became the dominant emotion in our politics and personal lives—and what we can do about it.