An essay on African-American fatherhood.

An obituary.

How ESPN anchor Stuart Scott battled cancer.

Tracy and Kathryn plan their wedding.

Ted Williams grows old.

When New Yorkers lived knee-deep in trash.

How a pandemic unfolds when you’re a Wall Street billionaire.

A rider’s self-improvement project becomes a whole lot more.

An experiment in public defense.

How Andrés Sepúlveda rigged elections across Latin America.

How Michelle Bachmann became a GOP front-runner.

A singer keeps getting close to stardom. And then something falls apart.

“‘I’m going to devote myself full time to securing and then winning a referendum on leaving the EU,’ Daniel Hannan replied. The aide laughed down the line. ‘Good luck with that.’”

When Clark Rockefeller snatched his daughter during a custody dispute, what the D.A. called “the longest con I’ve seen in my professional career” came unraveled, and the trail led to bones buried in a California backyard.

When it’s finished, architect Adrian Smith’s Jeddah Tower will be the tallest building in the world, over a kilometer high. He’s already thinking about pushing past a mile in the air.

Taurus sold almost a million handguns that can potentially fire without anyone pulling the trigger. The government won’t fix the problem. The NRA is silent.

A profile of a serial sex offender:

This is a story about how hard it is to be good—or, rather, how hard it is to be good once you’ve been bad; how hard it is to be fixed once you’ve been broken; how hard it is to be straight once you’ve been bent. It is about a scary man who is trying very hard not to be scary anymore and yet who still manages to scare not only the people who have good reason to be afraid of him but even occasionally himself. It is about sex, and how little we know about its mysteries; about the human heart, and how futilely we have responded—with silence, with therapy, with the law and even with the sacred Constitution—to its dark challenge. It is about what happens when we, as a society, no longer trust our futile responses and admit that we have no idea what to do with a guy like Mitchell Gaff.

JPMorgan Chase’s $6 billion mistake and the woman who took the fall.

Why almost everything we think we know about the iconic photo from Robinson’s first game is wrong.

On Juliana Buhring, a former cult member who became the first woman to bike around the world.

There’s a growing gap between the gun lobby’s leadership and its rank-and-file.