The privately funded effort in danger of falling down.

On Jared Kushner and his relationship with his father-in-law.

Alt-health meets alt-right in the ‘conspirituality’ movement.

In Alabama, entrenched poverty and unusual geology have created a public-health disaster.

After centuries of persecution, brown bears are showing up in some unexpected places.

A man is presumed murdered. In this town of 12, everyone is a possible suspect.

How the Assad regime tracked and killed Marie Colvin for reporting on war crimes in Syria.

The US election as witnessed by 25 reporters in 23 countries.

How Javaris Crittenton went from basketball phenom to standing trial on a murder charge.

What to do about climate change.

An epilogue to Serpico.

A combat veteran trains to be a college football placekicker.

An Aboriginal community’s attempt to maintain a 50,000-year-old way of life.

A mother-son bus trip from Florida to Juarez.

How Wall Street got addicted to trading at the speed of light.

How war-crimes investigators captured top-secret documents tying the Syrian regime to mass murder.

She was the Southern Californian PTA mom everyone knew. Who would want to harm her?

He was white nationalism’s heir apparent. Then he went to college.

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.