Elizabeth Anderson thinks we’ve misunderstood the basis of a free and fair society.

Making sense of Donald Trump’s petulant reign.

On the meaning of an ancient practice: collecting seashells.

A profile of the film critic.

The rise of “natural” wines, and what happens next.

On the end of Harvey Weinstein.

Could the pandemic teach us why our sense of smell matters?

The origin story of a now-ubiquitous celebration.

On the writer W.G. Sebald.

The early days of electronic spreadsheets and how the tool transformed business.

On the last day of their junior year at Harvard, one roommate kills the other, then hangs herself. The press descends. A year later, a reporter searches for the real story.

Every law student knows John Brady’s name. But few know the story of the bumbling murder that ended in a landmark legal ruling.

Meet Gene Locks, the onetime Princeton quarterback suing the NFL on behalf of 4,000 former players.

On Ahmad Chalabi, the con man who pushed America to war. Chalabi died on Tuesday at the age of 71.

A profile of Kehinde Wiley, a painter who inserts the “brown faces” that have historically been relegated to the background in Western art.

The inquiry into a nurse’s suicide after she was on the receiving end of a crank call.

How to buy college football players, in the words of a man who delivers the money.

How a bipolar diagnosis follows you from the top to the bottom of professional basketball.

The perilous existence of confidential informants.

On high school basketball star Chris Tang and the pressures of being the “Great Yellow Hope.”

The fight to vaccinate children in the border regions between Pakistan and Afghanistan as part of an attempt to eradicate polio worldwide.

How Thomas Drake, senior executive at the NSA, came to face some of the gravest charges that can be brought against an American citizen.

Miriam Carey died at the hands of the Secret Service. Over a year later, her family has no real answers about what happened to her.

He was the world’s foremost collector of presidential memorabilia, an outsider with a pathological need to fit in. He was also a thief.

Inside the lives of Sri Lanka’s Tamils as they emerge from a multi-decade war that defined and nearly destroyed them.