During the brief moment when the pandemic was receding and we could be together again, all we wanted to do was move our bodies.

The creator of the California-based food chain kills his mother, sister and, finally, himself.

“Over the past century, coaches have used intuition and discipline to vastly improve athletic performance. Now scientists are taking the last step, helping athletes approach perfection.”

The multiple stories behind an iconic college football photo.

The Booker Prize-winning novelist on fantasy, reality, and a religious crisis that has never ended.

Morcellation was supposed to make gynecological surgeries easier on women. Instead, is it killing them.

Ben Shapiro’s fans apparently think he is very smart. It’s not clear why.

“His seeming ease belies the anxiety and emotion that advisers say he brings to his historic position: pride in what he has accomplished, determination to acquit himself well and intense frustration.”

Twenty-one-year-old Briton Lucie Blackman came to Tokyo and found work in the Roppongi district hostess bars, where businessmen come to flirt with paid companions, and Western women draw a premium fee. Two months later, she disappeared. She would be found underneath a bathtub in a beachside cave.

“If a life can have a crystallizing moment, for Jim Graham that 1993 meeting was it, discovering that his father might have been a Catholic priest, rather than John Graham, the distant man who raised him with scarcely a kind or comforting word.”

Florida lawmakers agreed the state’s old drug sentencing laws went too far. But that means nothing to people serving time.

Resurrecting a legendary typeface.

Finding peace and quiet in the high Canadian Arctic.

Previously: The Longform Guide to Silence.

In 2008, a federally owned power plant spewed coal sludge over 300 acres in Tennessee. Now, 40 people who helped clean up the mess are dead and 300 ill.

Joe Namath believes hyperbaric oxygen treatment can reverse the brain damage he and others suffered playing football, so much so that a treatment center carries his name. The science, however, doesn’t support his claims.

Inside Stripe’s battle to upend the online payments world.

I’m a 36-year-old grown-ass man, and I’m about to start crying on the plane coming back from Game 4. That’s how bad I want it.

Trump’s trade representative joined the administration with one mission: Bring factory jobs back from overseas. The results so far? Endless trade wars, alienated allies, and a manufacturing recession.

The economic devastation wrought by the coronavirus has led to enormous food insecurity across America—even in its richest cities.

How a corporate network engineer became one of Aleppo’s most prolific weapons manufacturers.

The people behind the search for the “God particle.”

The case that brought leaks to the popular consciousness.