Both the Chinese government and private matchmakers are laboring to unite people who lost spouses and children in the earthquake.

How do you write about Hollywood’s most self-referential screenwriter at a destabilizing moment in history? It takes more than one draft.

“Successful brand identities in the House and on talk radio have never before relied on such similar skill sets — there has never been so much politics in media, and media in politics.”

“The concussion that led Borland to retire came on a routine play, and that’s precisely his point.”

On a convict too young to vote but old enough to be strapped to a chair.

From our guide to the death penalty at Slate.

In 1987, a terrible accident kills five Ole Miss sorority members. The author catches up with her Chi Omega sisters who survived.

A woman thought a Coen brothers movie was a “true story” and tracked it to her death. Now someone’s made a fictional film about her, further blurring the lines between reality and artifice.

Roy Petersen was blind in one eye, had two replaced hips, and was twice divorced. His job was to solve a gold mine robbery case in the Peruvian Andes. He would need some help.

The Federal Trade Commission has brought more than 60 cases related to data security against businesses. Only one has refused to settle.

Iranian operative Qassem Suleimani has been reshaping the Middle East. Now he’s directing Bashar al-Assad’s war in Syria.

In 2019, I made a painful decision. But to the algorithms that drive Facebook, Pinterest, and a million other apps, I’m forever getting married.

In the 1950s, L.S.D. became a Beverly Hills’ therapy fad, and it profoundly changed idols like Cary Grant.

One man’s experience with a sex surrogate in gay-conversion therapy.

Unraveling a lucrative crime ring.

How Kinfolk makes money while driving people crazy.

Why did a man travel 200 miles to die in a national park?

“Post-dignity design” and why apps speak to adults like children.

On Robin Williams’s final months.

On Bruce Springsteen’s song, and growing up in a factory town.

Reflections on Mr. Angell, Mr. Kahn and Dad.