A writer’s trip home to Hot Springs, Arkansas, and the racetrack inextricably linked with the histories of his family and his hometown.

On the Cairo knifing of 82-year-old Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz and its aftermath.

The mysterious business interests trying to patent strains and turn their company into the Monsanto of legal marijuana.

Guardians can sell the assets and control the lives of senior citizens without their consent—and reap a profit from it.

A small group of programmers wants to change how we code—before catastrophe strikes.

A gang of teen hackers snatched the keys to Microsoft’s videogame empire. Then they went too far.

America’s first viral story was of a Kentucky cave explorer, Floyd Collins, and the epic effort to rescue him.

An analysis of online activity during the 2016 campaign makes the case that targeted cyberattacks by hackers and trolls were decisive.

How Walter Liew stole titanium white from DuPont on behalf of the Chinese government.

The explorers who set one of the last meaningful records on earth.

On the anti-communist genocide known by the Indonesian Army as Operation Annihilation.

The death of the woman he loved was too much to bear. Could a mysterious website allow him to speak with her once more?

New research is zeroing in on a biochemical basis for the placebo effect — possibly opening a Pandora’s box for Western medicine.

In 1998, at age 45, Ken Bradshaw surfed the tallest wave in recorded history.

Did a handsome young Green Beret doctor kill his pregnant wife and two daughters? Or, as he claims, did a group of candle-carrying hippies carry out a vicious home invasion while chanting “Acid is groovy, kill the pigs”? A mystery that spanned three decades.

The Christian organization Teen Challenge, made up of more than a thousand centers, claims to reform troubled teens. But is its discipline more like abuse?

"The couple tried to make them leave. They complained to the police. When that didn’t work, they tried to build friendships, hoping they could charm the squatters into respecting their property. Sometimes, they hid in their house. For three years, the tension built. Until one sweltering summer night in 2016."

The last vestiges of a sporting powerhouse.

The N.S.A. claims it needs access to all our phone records. But is that the best way to catch a terrorist?

Atul Gawande’s recent commencement address at Stanford’s School of Medicine graduation. “Each of you is now an expert. Congratulations. So why—in your heart of hearts—do you not quite feel that way?”

“Twenty-five years ago, I used to live in fear of Trevor Latham kicking my ass nearly every day. I grew up to be a writer. He grew up to run one of the toughest biker gangs in America. And then I tracked him down.”

A new era in the search for life on Mars.

How the biggest club in Vegas does business.

Surviving the earthquake in Nepal – on Mount Everest.