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

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.

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.

Justin Alexander went searching for higher meaning. No one expected the quest to end in a search for his body.

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 proposals to change recommendations and curb conspiracies were sacrificed for engagement.

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

He dreamed of educating the children in his village. But soon he learned that it was dangerous for the Rohingya to dream.

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.

How did feeling good become a matter of relentless, competitive work; a never-to-be-attained goal which makes us miserable?

Independent “researchers” are sharing unfounded theories across social media, which have the potential to spread panic and confusion—and have even fooled legitimate government agencies.

Scientists in Brazil are trying to save the giant anteater from a growing threat: roads.

Daniel Kaye, also known as Spdrman, found regular jobs tough but corporate espionage easy. He’s about to get out of prison.

A Navajo girl was exploited and sex trafficked in urban and rural New Mexico. Why did so many fail to help her?

For months, Emile Weaver denied her pregnancy. A gruesome discovery forced her to confront the truth.

Two men were sent to prison for killing a French tourist in Manhattan in 1987. Can they overturn their convictions?

A cooking column for people with AIDS claimed the right to pleasure, but in each recipe was embedded an urgent appeal.