On Amaris Tyynismaa, the 14-year-old star runner who has Tourette’s.

With only a single breath, Alexey Molchanov, history’s most daring freediver, is reaching improbable depths—and discovering a new kind of enlightenment as he conquers one of the world’s wildest sports.

“People who didn’t live pre-Internet can’t grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. The only bookstores sold Bibles the size of coffee tables and dashboard Virgin Marys that glowed in the dark. I stopped in the middle of the SAT to memorize a poem, because I thought, This is a great work of art and I’ll never see it again.”

Alabama’s chemical-endangerment law was passed to protect kids from meth labs. But is the prosecution of about 60 mothers – and the definition of “child” extended to “unborn child” – pushing its boundaries too far?

An essay on a pregnancy attempted:

When I tell people what we are doing, they want to hear about the room where you produce. I tell them that there is a lot of paperwork. That they take your picture and look at your license. Then they walk you back to the room. You are handed a list of instructions and some stickers and a plastic cup. The cup has a forest-green lid. In the room is a VCR. I like to write down the names of the videos so I can share them with my wife and friends: Ass Angels #4, Original Black Queens of Porn (Afro-Centrix #113), and Chock Full of Asians. The latter features a woman with enlarged breasts so swollen they look luminous, like the sense apparatus of a recently discovered deep-sea fish.

Help came right away. And then it stopped.

Carol, who was out for a walk one afternoon, saw me marching around and shouted across the street: “YOU SURE WANT TO FIND THAT CAT!”

“YES,” I yelled back. “I SURE DO.”

“The concussion that led Borland to retire came on a routine play, and that’s precisely his point.”

Angie Nwandu has no journalism experience. No publishing experience. She’s 25. And in less than two years she has created an entirely new way to cover — and profit from — celebrity gossip.

Victims of Mexico’s drug violence often end up in unmarked graves. This man set out to find them.

Millions of American workers sign away legal rights without knowing what they’re in for: Arbitration Hell.

Since 9/11, the United States has spent $1 trillion on national security. An investigation into whether it has worked.

Pro boxing, famous for larger-than-life characters, now has one invented or the Instagram age.

If true justice and equality are ever to be achieved in the United States, the country must finally take seriously what it owes black Americans.

The legendary anchor has written a wild, unflinching memoir. Does that make her a bad person?

On finding something at Unclaimed Baggage Center, the Alabama store that sells what America loses.

A deep dive into what ails the media company.

The 39-year-old—call him ‘Mack’—has been liberated longer than you realize.

Some teachers and students got sick. Principals had to improvise constantly. But it worked—mostly.

Remembering jazz musician Ornette Coleman.

The Western student of international politics knows to nod approvingly when Lee’s name is mentioned. Frustrated by the sludge of partisan politics in his own country, he sees in Lee’s legacy a kind of exotic escape. If asked, he remarks sagely: Singapore is proof of what enlightened authoritarianism can achieve.

For the Never Trumpers, “Trumpism is more than a freakish blight on the republic. It is a moral test.”

For at least 130 years, cabbies in London have been taking what many believe is the hardest test in the world: through a series of oral exams that takes four years to complete, they must prove that know every one of the city’s 25,000 streets, every business and every landmark.

A mother struggles to cope when a child is born with albinism.

A profile of RZA, hip-hop artist and kung fu film director.