The story of a St. Louis handball court.

The murder of an Olympic champion and the autopsy that shook a city.

How a bioethicist’s field of study—suicide, euthanasia, a dignified death—”turned unbearably personal.”

The mysterious life and death of Dow B. Hover, the man who ran New York’s electric chair.

Newton Murray got his first job in 1926. He’s seldom missed a day of work since.

Memories of living with the writer Andrew Lytle late in his life.

A profile of Salvatore Strazzullo, who represents celebrities, whether major or minor, who get themselves in trouble in Manhattan after dark.

The story of a device that delivers electric shocks to students at a school for special needs.

A conversation on the “bedeviling sorts of indeterminacies one encounters the deeper one drills.”

How a small group academics revealed an ancient order of opthamologists.

A father’s life, one year after the death of his three daughters in a fire.

Dan Akroyd, John Belushi, cocaine, and the making of The Blues Brothers.

After a 19-year-old is convicted of murdering his girlfriend, her family fights to free him from prison.

The U.S. Department of Justice investigates the Blackwater founder’s new firm.

On the relationship between conservation, British farmers, and a possible Brexit.

A bus tour through Israel with a conservative radio host and 450 of his biggest fans.

A conversation about race, Hollywood, and what it’s like to be able to conjure weed out of thin air.

A two-part series on how and why Arianna Huffington lost control of The Huffington Post.

How Yvon Chouinard turned his eco-conscious, anti-corporate ideals into the credo of a successful clothing company.

On the journey of 24-year-old Jose Fernandez, the Cuban defector turned Major League all-star, who died Sunday.

A long stroll through a Staten Island cemetery leads to the story of the 19th-century free-black oystermen who settled Sandy Ground.

The shrinking of the country’s ice sheet is triggering feedback loops that accelerate the global crisis.

A palliative-care doctor and triple amputee has built a new kind of hospice in San Francisco.

A dispatch from the Philippine capital, where “no one will be safe until many, many more have died.”

One story of coming to America from the Soviet Union.