A trip to India for total silence.

Leland Yee was a career San Francisco politician known for championing open government and gun control. For the last few years, he was also the main target of an elaborate undercover investigation, during which he traded political favors for cash, tried to sell $2 million worth of weapons to a medical marijuana kingpin and worked closely with well-known Chinatown gangster named Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow.

A eulogy of sorts for the King.

Adventures with a group of young Hasidic men looking for God in psychedelic drugs.

A mother’s quest to find a diagnosis for her daughter’s mysterious condition.

What it was like to report on feminism for Playboy in 1969.

How Dress for Success helps women break through socioeconomic barriers.

There is no script for losing a spouse in your 30s.

Memories of Marilyn Monroe.

On the casting process for New York’s cult leader-like spin instructors.

A grieving father looks for answers.

The comic failings of a Kickstarter project that promised a “Netflix for vinyl.”

The president’s eulogy for the Reverend Clementa Pinckney.

What Gregg Popovich, 5-time NBA champion coach, looks for in players.

A second act for the former head of McSweeney’s.

Was Edwin Raymond punished for not meeting quotas?

An orphan named Patience and an argument for open immigration.

On trying out for the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Why all soccer fans should root for Holland to lose to Spain.

The search for the genetic distinction that allows certain animals, humans included, to be domesticated.

Meet the man responsible for third-wave coffee—and the Frappuccino.

A eulogy for a movement.

Hundreds of people have gone missing on remote public lands. Who’s responsible for finding them?

A prescient case for W. Mark Felt as journalism’s most famous leaker.