What it feels like to get hit by a major league fastball.

How a Russian-born Canadian 23-year-old invented Ethereum, the first cryptocurrency to seriously challenge Bitcoin.

The complicated life and death of Hideki Irabu, a pitcher who was supposed to become a Yankee legend and found heartache instead.

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

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

“Who we become has so much to do with the experiences we had, and how we survived.”

The country’s elites are desperate to figure out what they got wrong in 2016. But can they handle the truth?

A global network of live-work spaces is springing up to serve this new breed of millennial wanderer.

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

A new historical inquiry into the murder of Elwood Higginbotham offers a chance to confront the past.

He wants you to know one thing: He’s not even angry.

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

Minara Akhter came to America with uncertainty and hope. Then her husband, a Muslim religious leader, was murdered in a suspected hate crime.

How prosecutors tied a brazen murder in an upscale Dallas suburb to one of Mexico’s most violent criminal organizations.

The enormous life of Anthony Bourdain, according to those who knew him best.

The story of a bank robber who risked his life to put a killer on death row.

Why one physician took the risk of becoming an F.B.I. informant to expose alleged Medicare fraud.

More than 600,000 U.S.-born children of undocumented parents live in Mexico. What happens when you return to a country you’ve never known?

The parents indicted in the college-admissions scandal were responding to a changing America, with rage at being robbed of what they believed was rightfully theirs.

An investigator set out to discover the source of one scammy robocall. Turns out, his target made them by the millions.

How coach Gregg Popovich’s love of fine wine led to a 20-year run of success in the NBA.

Decades of greed, neglect, corruption, and bad politics led to last year’s Paradise fire, the worst in California history.

A Swiss chateau. A Broadway musical all about her. And absolutely nothing she has to do.

What the opioid crisis has done to one indigenous family in Alaska–the writer’s.

Some risky but practical proposals to harness a superpower that has clearly lost control.