On Alaska’s North Slope, village schools aim to blend book learning with the Arctic reality.

Chris, a 25-year-old black man, tries to get a good job.

A family’s journey from Armenia to Syria and back again.

James Reston’s problematic proximity to the powerful.

An ode to the fastball and the pitchers who throw it best.

Alan Beaty’s Tennessee farm serves an unofficial halfway house for Marines struggling with their return to civilian life.

A profile of a serial sex offender:

This is a story about how hard it is to be good—or, rather, how hard it is to be good once you’ve been bad; how hard it is to be fixed once you’ve been broken; how hard it is to be straight once you’ve been bent. It is about a scary man who is trying very hard not to be scary anymore and yet who still manages to scare not only the people who have good reason to be afraid of him but even occasionally himself. It is about sex, and how little we know about its mysteries; about the human heart, and how futilely we have responded—with silence, with therapy, with the law and even with the sacred Constitution—to its dark challenge. It is about what happens when we, as a society, no longer trust our futile responses and admit that we have no idea what to do with a guy like Mitchell Gaff.

A mother writes about her daughter, lost to drugs at 22.

Tracing Europe’s migrant crisis to organized crime.

On the modern era’s answer to James Baldwin.

The three men vying to be the next publisher of the New York Times.

A tale of British gangsters who were determined to be famous.

A moment of racism at Harvard leads the writer to consider Huckleberry Finn.

On the response to the Paris attacks.

To whom does San Francisco’s oldest neighborhood belong?

Trying to make sense our current age of disbelief.

A last-minute trip to Sri Lanka.

A reporter returns to My Lai.

A profile of the favorite to become the next UK prime minister.

A coffee shop owner finally gets to shut down his store.

Americans learn to love themselves.

What became of Annie Moore, the first person to arrive on Ellis Island?

A weekend at a Christian gay-to-straight sexual reorientation retreat.

What does it take to win the World Taxidermy Championships?