It was once a widely accepted way of explaining why some children struggled to read and write. But in recent years, some experts have begun to question the existence of dyslexia itself.

They were pillars of their communities and families, and they are not replaceable. To understand why COVID-19 killed so many young Black men, you need to know the legend of John Henry.

Interviews with 19 current and former officers show how failures of leadership and communication put hundreds of Capitol cops at risk and allowed rioters to get dangerously close to members of Congress on January 6th, 2021.

The internet is changing everything we thought we knew about the value of stuff—from stocks, to flying cherub art, to cats with Pop-Tart bodies.

The pandemic brought the business opportunity of a lifetime to Puritan Medical Products of Guilford, Maine. But even a $250 million infusion from the U.S. government has done little to quell an epic family feud.

In my naive denial, I had wanted to see him as a hapless ne’er-do-well, a nonconformist with a streak of dishonesty. I liked to think of him as a latter-day Robin Hood. Now I knew that wasn’t true.

“It is not so difficult to get Paul McCartney to talk about the past, and this can be a problem. Anyone who has read more than a few interviews with him knows that he has a series of anecdotes, mostly Beatles-related, primed and ready to roll out in situations like these. Pretty good stories, some of them, too. But my goal is to guide McCartney to some less manicured memories—in part because I hope they'll be fascinating in themselves, but also because I hope that if I can lure him off the most well-beaten tracks, that might prod him to genuinely think about, and reflect upon, his life.

And so that is how—and why—we spend most of the next hour talking about killing frogs, taking acid, and the pros and cons of drilling holes in one's skull.”

How volunteer firefighters responded to a lethal West, Texas explosion.

How Norman Mailer and other writers wanted to go out.

Doug Band gets close to, then falls out with, Bill and Hillary.

Why one man made it his mission to kill 60 known sex offenders.

How Owen came to communicate again.

A journalist on the troll who tried to destroy her.

Unraveling the story of an amnesiac who doesn’t want to know his past.

Why did a man travel 200 miles to die in a national park?

The people at Apple, Spotify, and Google who decide what you listen to.

Transgender voice therapy, an airline pilot, and what it means to sound like a woman.

“Post-dignity design” and why apps speak to adults like children.

In order to keep running, Tom White cut off his own leg.

Unprecedented access to six months in the life of the President of the United States.

The battle over what to do with New York City’s worst teachers.

On artists using their bodies to blur the line between human and machine.

Embedded with the “hotshots” trying to battle forest fires.