"It is one thing for you to get a correct image, and it is another thing for me to spoil my life."

Everything I had going against me he had going for him. Us young Black dudes who were slanging were hated, hunted and haunted for our role in the drug war. He was praised and honored and rewarded with overtime.

We like to believe that the blame for wrongful convictions falls on individuals: the racist prosecutor, the crooked cop. It doesn’t always work that way.

The actress Tilda Swinton found herself dissatisfied with the schools available for her twins. So she founded her own.

For some Americans, history isn’t the story of what actually happened; it’s the story they want to believe.

An interview with a Mexican-born American attorney who defended and eventually smuggled for the cartels in the ’90s.

The life of Phyllis Frye, a pioneer in the fight for transgender rights.

David Carr’s advice for the 2014 graduating class at the UC Berkeley School of Journalism.

What happened next for Harry Whittington, the guy Cheney shot in the face? Not an apology.

“I wanted to be prepared for the worst nature could throw at me. But the real threat turned out to be human.”

A profile of the doctor who has run the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for 36 years.

A profile of the eccentric Gene Weingarten, the only person to twice win the Pulitzer for feature writing.

The longtime editor of the London Review of Books on editing, the “fussed” people on Twitter, and “preferential treament” for women.

Testimonies about the Soviet war in Afghanistan, reported by the 2015 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

The sordid, petty world of “gossip item” sources for the New York Post and The Daily News, and what happens when they go bad.

America, China, and the case for coal as a vital weapon in the war against climate change.

Inside the wildly ambitious effort to reimagine the classic musical for 2020.

A Kosovar refugee must decide between love and family.

A year living in a shack in Oakland.

Nick now claims that he was searching for methamphetamine for his entire life, and when he tried it for the first time, as he says, ''That was that.'' It would have been no easier to see him strung out on heroin or cocaine, but as every parent of a methamphetamine addict comes to learn, this drug has a unique, horrific quality.

Finally, the crowd broke for lunch, with those who paid $1,000 availing themselves of private workouts. The highest tier lunched with Paltrow and select panelists. The proles were relegated to wandering around the warehouse and converted parking lot for two hours, getting solicited by dream interpreters or standing in endless lines for free blowouts or manicures — services promptly halted once the panels resumed, no matter that some had spent well over an hour in line.

On the Susan B. Anthony List, the anti-choice power broker:

In a year when 11 women are running for the U.S. Senate, including six pro-choice Democratic incumbents, the efforts of a group founded by second-wave feminists, named for a first-wave feminist, could once again be a major force in reducing female representation in Congress.

How PTSD spreads from returning soldiers to their families.