In the slums adjacent to Mumbai’s airport.

How America used to vote.

Trying to prevent the next tragedy.

From Medusa to Merkel.

What happens when we talk to animals?

How to lose weight while barely moving.

A visit to a Maine museum devoted to Bigfoot and other mythical creatures.

The fight to grant asylum to the translators who worked—and sometimes fought—alongside U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A profile of Larry Garrison, the man who “gets paid to bring tabloid stories to TV news programs.”

On the Balkan musical genre Turbo-Folk, its ties to Serbian ultranationalism, and the strongman nightclub owner who brought it to Croatia.

A newspaper writer’s attempt to solve the mystery of a homeless man who claims to be a once-famous boxer.

Afghans have long visited falbin to have their futures foretold. Fundamentalist Muslim clerics hope to stop that.

After his daughter died in a terrorist attack, Stephen Flatow won an unprecedented judgment against her killers. Then he had to figure out how to actually collect.

Ten stories on guns, ranging from competitive shooting, to girl gangs in Chicago, to the sisters and mothers of mass shooting victims.

The article that kept the New Yorker alive was written by a debutante. Who happened to be married to Irving Berlin.

While fleeing their Mali stronghold, al-Qaida left behind documents describing not how to terrorize a population, but how to govern.

At 33, Wendy Brown stole her daughter’s name, grabbed a pair of pom-poms, and went back to high school. Then she went to jail.

With your mom.

For years he used fake identities to charm women out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Then his victims banded together to take him down.

On the cusp of delivery, a mother-to-be recounts the anxiety-laden path to parenthood.

On Bob Woodward’s “rather eerie aversion to engaging the ramifications of what people say to him.”

Why did it take so long for the systems that are supposed to police problem doctors to stop him from operating?

Renée Bach went to Uganda to save children—but many in her care died. Was she responsible?

The quest to transform this country cannot be limited to challenging its brutal police.