A profile of Gil-Scott Heron.

Trying to make sense of a fragmented, disparate musical tradition.

Why everything is getting louder.

Baba Ramdev renounced the material world twenty-three years ago to become a Hindu ascetic. Now he’s on TV selling toothpaste, instant noodles, and toilet cleaners and the company he is believed to control is poised to become the biggest consumer goods seller in India.

The debate over who’s responsible when a child kills.

On wearing a concealed handgun and how it changed the author’s worldview.

A trip to a grave in Damascus as shelling started in Homs.

On digital animators’ quest to capture the endlessly complex human face.

He doesn’t really know. Never really has, actually, and that’s the way he likes it.

An interview with the elusive Frank Ocean.

A search for common ground.

On mental health and professional sports.

On a newfound appreciation for the stroll.

The fall of Richard Roberts, anointed son and successor of televangelist Oral Roberts, who was fired as president of Oral Roberts University and evicted from the home he’d lived in for nearly 50 years.

A viral video in which Dr. Annie Bukacek questions the severity of COVID-19 has given anti-lockdown activists across the country a sense of validation.

Bill Murray grants a rare interview and appears to admit, among other things, that he occasionally approaches strangers from behind on the streets of NYC, puts his hands over their eyes, and says “guess who.”

A profile of a “49-year-old man whose father has just yelled at him,” Frank Sinatra Jr., a son living under the longest shadow.

In three decades of advocating for prison abolition, the activist and scholar has helped transform how people think about criminal justice.

On the Texas-sized trash island floating in the Pacific.

Horowitz went from the New Left to the far right. Now neither side wants him.

I don’t think there’s anything that I’m not afraid of, on some level. But if you mean, What are we afraid of, as humans? Chaos. The outsider. We’re afraid of change. We’re afraid of disruption, and that is what I’m interested in.”

Inside the Cleveland Indians clubhouse during their 22 game win streak.

How a 15-month-old was found dead in the sea in Norway.

A profile of the late Jack LaLanne, “the greatest gym teacher of all time,” who was as responsible as anyone for America’s fitness craze in the latter half of the 20th century.

“Good espresso depends on the fourM’s: Macchina, the espresso machine; Macinazione, the proper grinding of a beans; Miscela, the coffee blend and the roast, and Mano is the skilled hand of the barista, because even with the finest beans and the most advanced equipment, the shot depends on the touch and style of the barista.”