A pre-Olympics profile of the now-gold medalist.

A week in the world of the Miss America Pageant.

The family accused of funding the Pakistani Taliban.

The story of the family who couldn’t stop adopting.

Pakistani fishing communities struggle inside the nets of bonded labor.

Can a cowboy become the greatest polo player of all time?

The corruption and cruelty of the state’s response to suspected jihadis and their families seem likely to lead to the resurgence of the terror group.

Are video games capable of emotion?

Memories of the author’s teenage years, when his father pulled up stakes on a comfortable life in Baltimore to reinvent himself as the head of a S&L bank in Los Angeles.

He is one of the most powerful people in media and has become a prominent voice in the #MeToo movement. Now six women accuse Moonves of harassment and intimidation, and dozens more describe abuse at his company.

A look at the Mexican drug wars from the point of view of a narco’s mistress in Juárez.

On the history of Earth Day and the failure of the modern environmental movement.

Our entire way of life depends upon the “cold chain,” the network of artificially refrigerated spaces that have reshaped the modern world.

Learning of a plot against the life of the newly elected Lincoln, Alan Pinkerton decamps to Baltimore and infiltrates the conspiracy.

On the overstated effect of the Santa Ana winds on human behavior and the understated impact of climate change on LA’s seasons.

“In some ways, joining the military is an act of faith in one’s country—an act of faith that the country will use your life well.”

On the frontlines of extinction in the Gulf of California, where the vaquita faces its final days.

In 1963, William Zantzinger was convicted of manslaughter in the death of Hattie Carroll and then immortalized – and somewhat defamed – by Bob Dylan. What’s he been up to since then?

Over the course of a year, Luke Dittrich will be walking the entire 1,933 miles of the Mexico-US border “from the beach to Gulf” with a stroller. The first in a series.

The story of Ota Benga, captured in the Congo, displayed at the World’s Fair, and brought to the Bronx Zoo in 1906.

“The conditions in America today do not much resemble those of 1968. In fact, the best analogue to the current moment is the first and most consequential such awakening—in 1868.”

The author of The Hot Zone on how geneticists can help contain the current outbreak.

The U.S. Department of Justice investigates the Blackwater founder’s new firm.

A triple homicide, the alleged involvement of a Boston Marathon bombing suspect, and those caught up in the FBI’s ongoing investigation.