A teenage clerk dialed 911. How should the brothers who own CUP Foods pay for what happened next?

Between 1920 and 2020, the average human life span doubled. How did we do it? Science mattered—but so did activism.

Fifty years ago, a police shooting set in motion a decades-long chase across the American West.

The pandemic offered an unprecedented opportunity for the researchers who study why and how we dream.

A profile of singer-songwriter Will Oldham.

He has settled into character as an uncanny troubadour, singing a sort of transfigured country music, and he has become, in his own subterranean way, a canonical figure. Johnny Cash covered him, Björk has championed him (she invited him to appear on the soundtrack of “Drawing Restraint 9”), and Madonna, he suspects, has quoted him (her song “Let It Will Be” seems to borrow from his “O Let It Be,” though he says, “I’m fully prepared to accept that it’s a coincidence”).

Embedded with G4S, the world’s largest private army.

What happens when you target sex ed at boys?

The people at Apple, Spotify, and Google who decide what you listen to.

Growing crops in the city, without soil or natural light.

On meterologic obsession, making weather, and very powerful storms.

The battle over what to do with New York City’s worst teachers.

An overachiever on what he did and didn’t learn at Princeton.

How Wall Street won.

On artists using their bodies to blur the line between human and machine.

The hedge funders who tried to give away a fortune anonymously.

Taking a taxi across the Saudi desert.

Catching up with Edward Snowden in Moscow.

On Wonder Woman’s feminist past.

The battle over a New York Picasso.

The thin moral line between collecting and stealing plants.

One rancher has a plan to save the endangered rhinoceros: domesticate them.

Who killed four people in the French Alps?

How France’s public schools became the battleground in a culture war.

An essay on African-American Republicans.

Pathologists and epidemiologists take on “the confounding killer known as AIDS.”