With a brutal cancer prognosis, a woman learns to live on borrowed time.

The history of a Japanese archipelago and its inhabitants, through rebellions and famine, a 20th century exodus for prostitution work across Asia, and finally depopulation and isolation.

They’re supposed to safeguard pretrial detainees. But America’s oldest law enforcement agency is suffering from a massive dereliction of duty.

On the early NBA days of the league’s newest champion.

We knew everything we needed to know, and nothing stood in our way. Nothing, that is, except ourselves.

Walter Pitts, who helped develop the “first mechanistic theory of the mind,” was so brilliant he was once been invited to study with Bertrand Russell. He was also homeless.

On Brent White, the joke whisperer who edits the largely improvisational comedies of Paul Feig, Judd Apatow and Adam McKay.

The holdings of the Seattle Art Museum are historically male-dominated. When Matthew Offenbacher won a prize for his own art, he decided to use it to beef up their queer and female holdings.

The writer returns to his remote North Dakota hometown’s high school, then isolated with a graduating class of only 28, now even smaller but connected by the internet.

A U.S. Marine’s journey from the Afghan war to an Illinois prison.

By choice, for less than $2 an hour, the female inmate firefighters of California work their bodies to the breaking point. Sometimes they even risk their lives.

Companies are figuring out how to balance what appears to be a lasting shift toward remote work with the value of the physical workplace.

These Boston high school valedictorians set off to change the world. But good grades only got them so far. Is Boston failing its brightest students? A five-part series about the students left behind.

Santería or Vodou are explored as possibilities.

A Romanian-German novelist on being pursued by Ceaucescu’s secret police.

Two days with a broken-hearted Tom Hiddleston.

The jury room was a gray-green, institutional rectangle: coat hooks on the wall, two small bathrooms off to one side, a long, scarred table surrounded by wooden armchairs, wastebaskets, and a floor superficially clean, deeply filthy. We entered this room on a Friday at noon, most of us expecting to be gone from it by four or five that same day. We did not see the last of it until a full twelve hours had elapsed, by which time the grimy oppressiveness of the place had become, for me at least, inextricably bound up with psychological defeat.

Decades later, U.S.-backed dictator Hissène Habré faces justice.

One woman’s ghastly dollhouse dioramas turned crime scene investigation into a science.

A grieving father looks for answers.

Inside a high-profile Hollywood child custody battle.

A snitch comes clean.

What happens when immigrant-rights advocates reach a breaking point?