The social network positioned its plan to bring the internet to millions of Indians as a gift. The country saw a catch.

A conversation about race, Hollywood, and what it’s like to be able to conjure weed out of thin air.

The gospel according to nine-year-olds; a missionary group that won the right to evangelize in schools and how children process their message.

A filmmaker goes to court to fight the television commercial break.

Her parents wanted Jennifer to be successful. The pressure may have led her to plot their murder.

Incremental changes in abortion laws lead to a system where women “turn themselves into pretzels” just to find a doctor.

When they go to bed tonight, white people will be five times likelier to get a good night’s sleep than African-Americans.

An attempt to figure out how the Times columnist came to care more about personal morality than politics.

A writer returns home to find a toxic disaster, giant government failure, and countless children exposed to lead.

Mamoru Samuragochi’s story turned out to be too good to be true.

Three siblings from Chicago ran away to become jihadis. Is it fair to try them as terrorists?

How one community is struggling to understand and respond to a cluster of suicides.

On the Calorie Restriction movement, the scientifically-supported belief that the key to a very long life is to eat as little as possible.

In 1975, Jackie O., widow to a president and tycoon, decided to become a literary editor.

The ace pilot risking his life to fulfill Richard Branson’s billion-dollar quest to make commercial space travel a reality.

The author spent a day with three men in a high-end security detail to find out how it feels to be safe.

How one man’s quest to spread Christmas cheer led to a miserable four-year war with his neighborhood.

A trip to a lobster festival leads to an examination of the culinary and ethical dimensions of cooking a live, possibly sentient, creature.

A young British man was drawn to a white-supremacist group, until they started plotting to kill.

After two officers came to a Pacific Northwest community, longtime residents began to disappear.

It wasn’t until death rates began to soar that society began to take the outbreak seriously enough.

Could shrunken heads from the Amazon hold the key to curing cancer? One man thought so—and spent a lifetime trying to prove it.

The death of the woman he loved was too much to bear. Could a mysterious website allow him to speak with her once more?

Yasiel Puig’s journey to the Dodgers.

A trip to a Louisiana leper colony.