A group of high school students try desperately to make it through an isolated and dire year.

A cohort of journalists is drowning in burnout, trauma, and moral injury.

As landlords and tenants go broke across the U.S., the next crisis point of the pandemic approaches.

More than 60 years after Brown v. Board of Education, New York’s schools remain separate and unequal.

In the north Bronx, a small group of elite Ethiopian runners struggle to survive. The persecution they fled was far more harrowing.

After taking on gentrification in Denver, did a successful anti-gang activist become a target of law enforcement?

Climate change is bringing tourism and tension to Longyearbyen on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.

Although many Americans see the former police officer’s conviction as just closure, many in Minneapolis view it as the beginning of a larger battle.

Pedestrianism was a sport of epic rivalries, eyewatering salaries, feverish nationalism, eccentric personalities and six-day, 450-mile walks.

A profile of the singer-songwriter.

The ghosts of the uranium boom continue to haunt the land, water, and people.

How a baby-faced CEO turned a Farmville clone into a massive Ponzi scheme.

Drought is shrinking one of the country’s largest reservoirs, revealing a hidden Eden.

To deal with climate change and power the cars of tomorrow, we’ll have to solve the cobalt problem.

When presenting as a man, this “tech bro” entrepreneur was the toast of Silicon Valley—until she stepped into boardrooms as a woman.

At fourteen, Ron Bishop helped convict three innocent boys of murder. They’ve all lived with the consequences.

The dark side of startup life in Silicon Valley.

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The full text of a 20,000-word ebook on the interpreters who worked alongside American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, and their fates once they were no longer of service.

“Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to make the meaning clearer. It consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug.”

How a 29-year-old actress, reeling from the death of her first love and battling Dustin Hoffman off-screen, found herself on the set of Kramer vs. Kramer.

A profile of the highest paid coach in college basketball. A pioneer of one-and-done recruiting, Calipari is also the only coach in NCAA history to have two runs to the Final Four removed from the record books for rules violations.

Like hundreds of other local slaves — [they] had been pressed into service by the Confederates, compelled to build an artillery emplacement amid the dunes across the harbor. They labored beneath the banner of the 115th Virginia Militia, a blue flag bearing a motto in golden letters: “Give me liberty or give me death.”

We ate in our own restaurants, stayed in our own hotels, and hired our own guides. We moved through a parallel Paris—and a parallel Rome, Milan, and so on.

The reporter takes a whirlwind guided bus tour of a Europe with a group of Chinese tourists.

He created the template for contemporary hit-making, made Ace of Base the biggest group in the world, and mentored the most successful songwriter since the Beatles. Why have you never heard of Denniz Pop? Excerpted from The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory.