Scenario-based forecasts on the future of America, in the style of the C.I.A’s National Intelligence Estimate.

A (graphically) detailed account of a bear’s attack on a father and daughter hiking in Glacier National Park.

In 1926, at the age of 12, Barbara Follett published a critically acclaimed novel. Fourteen years later, she disappeared.

On the enduring racial segregation in Chicago and why it’s an issue no mayoral candidate is willing to touch.

Around 60 people in the world share a condition called “highly superior autobiographical memory.” They remember absolutely everything.

How an unassuming bureaucrat outsmarted Jamie Oliver and pulled off a cafeteria miracle in one of America’s unhealthiest cities.

On what lay behind Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and what lies ahead.

From 2009 to 2014, police in Florida shot 827 people. Many of these incidents were avoidable and unnecessary.

On water in the West, climate change, and how the birth of modern environmentalism lies at the bottom of Lake Powell.

West Virginia has the highest overdose death rate in the country. Locals are fighting to save their neighbors—and their towns—from destruction.

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.