Trying to parent my Black teenagers through protest and pandemic.

How breakfast got served at the Flamingo hotel in Las Vegas.

She posted an ad for a roommate. What’s the worst that could happen?

Norma Claypool earned notoriety for welcoming 15 “hard-to-adopt” children into her Baltimore home. Norma Claypool is also elderly and blind.

Fentanyl is quickly becoming America’s deadliest drug. But law enforcement couldn’t trace it to its source—until one teenager overdosed in North Dakota.

An adventure on the Beringia, a dog sled race stretching 685 miles over Russia’s frozen tundra.

Paul Bremer was briefly the Bush administration’s point person in Iraq. His decisions would have lasting consequences.

A pro-Ukraine activist goes silent in separatist-held Donetsk. A foreign correspondent goes looking for him.

In Argentina, where the fútbol underworld controls everything from t-shirt vending to murder, and “rowdy gangs” have turned the stadium into a battleground.

A 50-year medical riddle in Papua New Guinea and the man who made solving it his life’s work.

How an autocratic CEO made the company billions, alienating almost everyone else in the process.

Barack Obama on Africa, Putin and the gap between what CEOs tell him over lunch and what they tell their lobbyists.

How an amateur photographer documented the greatest achievement in track and field history.

How a woman whose muscles disappeared discovered she shared a disease with a muscle-bound Olympic medalist.

Behind the character Ursula in The Little Mermaid was a legendary drag queen from Baltimore named Divine.

Without fanfare—indeed, with some misgivings about its new status—China has just overtaken the United States as the world’s largest economy.

An innocent man was executed – in 1761. Voltaire got on the case.

An industry responds to the recession by rebranding the carrot as anything but vegetable.

The search for a missing ultramarathoner in New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness, and the life that lead him there.

The Onion’s Keith Phipps retraces the route Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda followed in Easy Rider.

The Great Recession’s impact on the legalized prostitution industry in Nevada: more hookers, fewer johns.

Around 60 people in the world share a condition called “highly superior autobiographical memory.” They remember absolutely everything.

West Virginia has the highest overdose death rate in the country. Locals are fighting to save their neighbors—and their towns—from destruction.

What happened after an unarmed 18-year-old named Ramarley Graham was shot and killed by a New York City police officer.

How Vivitrol, a little-known anti-addiction drug, became the mandatory treatment for opioid abuse in drug courts across the United States.