How Western Union does business in 2017.

How Vivitrol, a little-known anti-addiction drug, became the mandatory treatment for opioid abuse in drug courts across the United States.

Young-adult books are being targeted in intense social-media callouts, draggings, and pile-ons — sometimes before anybody’s even read them.

Last November, A.J. Delgado played a vital role in the presidential campaign. Then everything fell apart.

A profile of a young activist in Chicago who almost committed suicide on Facebook Live.

There are just a handful of people using iron lungs in the U.S. And the machines they rely on to live are wearing out.

Life as a New York Times reporter in the shadow of the war on terror.

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

He was the consensus #1 pick in last year’s NBA draft. Then, seemingly overnight, he forgot how to shoot.

A Native American family’s fight for housing security in the city and on the reservation.

Thirty years ago, a series of documentaries introduced the world to an isolated tribe in Papua New Guinea. What happened when the cameras left?

“You’ve got your whole life in front of you. You’re pretty, you’ve got this house — well, you don’t have this house anymore. This house is my house.”

After the explosion of the Columbia shuttle in 2003, two American astronauts aboard the International Space Station suddenly found themselves with no ride home.

A profile of California’s governor at the end of more than 40 years in public life.

An interview with Cobain a few months after the release of In Utero.

How the 9.9 percent became “the principal accomplices in a process that is slowly strangling the economy, destabilizing American politics, and eroding democracy.”

How Texas’s decade-long border security operation has turned South Texas into one of the most heavily policed and surveilled places in the nation.

Mike Picarella wanted to protect a co-worker from humiliating sexual harassment. He didn’t expect his own life to be destroyed in the process.

Last week, as America’s top national security experts convened in Aspen, a strangely inquisitive Uber driver showed up, too.

One of the most accomplished Himalayan guides works at an outdoor retailer in Lower Manhattan.

An oral history of the women who transformed Rolling Stone in the mid-70s.

David Boies argued Bush v. Gore all the way to the Supreme Court. He lost the case, but in the process gained another client: Harvey Weinstein.

The Venezuelan maestro of the Los Angeles Philharmonic conjures joy in difficult times.

“I’ve increasingly become aware of how much of my reputation in Taiwan is built on the knowledge of my New York upbringing.”

The true story of M Company: from Fort Dix to Vietnam in 50 days.