The next generation of America’s most controversial (and likely most despised) church.

A profile of Beck on the eve of his new album and nearly 20 years after the release of “Loser.”

A retired fighter worries that he has all the symptoms of CTE.

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

The doctors, patient, and ethics behind the experiment.

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

A father and his 9-year-old daughter watch Harvard play Yale in football.

How a disgraced principal-turned real estate mogul helped cause the global financial crisis.

Danny Caldwell is openly gay. He’s married. And he’s against gay marriage.

The Straters’ lives have been devastated by relentless cyberattacks. And there’s nothing they can do about it.

More than 500 Germans, including a former rapper named Deso Dogg, have joined ISIS in Syria.

A baby dies after hitting his head when his father drops him, and the investigation that ensues can’t offer any easy answers.

It’s not just the virus that stands in the way, it’s bureaucratic logistics, and the frightening look of those hazmat suits.

The process of claiming a loved one’s body after a massacre at a Kenyan university.

Caitlin Curran was fired from WNYC for attending an Occupy Wall Street protest. The author explains why her boss was wrong.

The life and death of Marla Ruzicka, a 28-year-old aid worker in Baghdad.

Greg Ousley killed his parents and has been locked up for nineteen years.

Is that enough?

How the daily e-mail from Mike Allen, Politico’s star reporter, has become a morning ritual for Washington’s elite.

Tony Kushner and the burdens of being one of the last public intellectuals in American theater.

The Ugandan rebel Lord’s Resistance Army, drawn mostly from kidnapped children, has proved as elusive as it is barbaric.

Music editor Yaroslav Pastukhov drew young journalists and artists into a transnational cocaine-smuggling ring.

“There wasn’t anything normal about this.”

“I feel like we sort of choked.”

Nearly all the world’s fake products come from China. America’s oldest private detective agency is on the case.