Requiem for a viral hit.

The author on her reverence for water.

Life for women in the trucking industry.

“For every other kid in the room, the science experiment probably amounts to just another classroom activity, but for the Nashes the project is a reminder of Molly’s own fight for life and the controversial cutting-edge medicine that saved her.”

“What it means — for the reporting we do, for the brands we represent, and for our own mental health — that we don’t stop being black people when we’re working as black reporters. That we quite literally have skin in the game.”

Jennifer Warren promised people counseling and recovery for free. When they arrived, she put them to work 16 hours a day for no pay at adult care homes for the elderly and disabled.

The case against Jonathan Pollard, an American who spied for Israel.

On the private, for-profit probation industry.

The fight for South Africa’s future.

A new era in the search for life on Mars.

When Manny Ramirez played half a season for the E-DA Rhinos.

The market for Hirst’s work is in a tailspin. Why?

On an affliction for the digital age, “Munchausen by internet.”

Facing the inevitability of taking over care for someone who can’t take care of themselves.

An Oxford philosopher pursues the formula for morality.

Silicon Valley’s biohacking craze has turned its sights on small doses of LSD for the workplace.

What accounts for the gender gap in literary criticism?

A bridge, a preventable leap, and the politics of barriers for “suicide hotspots.”

A search for the “armpit of America” ends in Battle Mountain, Nevada.

How a Massachusetts psychotherapist fell for a Nigerian e-mail scam.

Alan Beaty’s Tennessee farm serves an unofficial halfway house for Marines struggling with their return to civilian life.

Live from Kingston for Frazier vs. Foreman.

An interview with a man who organized suicide bombings for ISIS.

Reckoning with what is owed—and what can never be repaid—for racial privilege.

Looking for the ghosts of the Allman Brothers Band in Macon.