A profile of the writer behind “Deep Thoughts” on Saturday Night Live.

A pre-Olympics profile of the now-gold medalist.

On the actress’s stellar year.

America’s poet laureate of the dick joke is taking it all in stride.

The aftermath of a sudden death.

Church-loving surf instructor Matthew Taylor Coleman fell into online conspiracy theories, then allegedly admitted to killing his kids to save the world. How did no one see it coming?

The road to Lhakpa Sherpa’s seventh potential summit​ has been nothing if not complicated.

The unexpected evolution of Olympic medalist Debi Thomas.

Not long ago the idea of repairing the brain’s wiring to fight addiction would have seemed far-fetched. But advances in neuroscience have upended conventional notions about addiction—what it is, what can trigger it, and why quitting is so tough.

The polar icecaps are melting. Is it OK to have a child? Australia is on fire. Is it OK to have a child? My house is flooded, my crops have failed, my community is fleeing. Is it OK to have a child? It is, in a sense, an impossible question.

In El Salvador, Jucuapa is home to dozens of small factories that churn out what some locals call the “wooden pajamas.”

On living in dark times.

“As a young reporter in Eastern Europe in 2001, I expected to witness the ‘end of history’ and the flowering of democracy. That was just one of the mistakes I made.”

The state attorney, who prosecuted Marissa Alexander and failed to convict George Zimmerman, has put hundreds of children behind bars.

A story of gambling addiction, in seven parts.

On black bodies in the age of the Charleston shootings.

EEE kills almost half of its victims, and cases are on the rise.

On Ray Dalio, who built the world’s biggest hedge fund by running it like a cult.

Two days with a group of white nationalists in Kentucky.

On the post-prison lives of several men in West Baltimore.

The mainstreaming of livestreaming.

Why are we still involved?

The Mexican novelist and activist talks about the role that the US plays in the hemisphere, and a joint future for North and South America.

We need your memory and your imagination or ours shall never be complete. You need our memory to redeem your past, and our imagination to complete your future. We may be here on this hemisphere for a long time. Let us remember one another. Let us respect one another. Let us walk together outside the night of repression and hunger and intervention, even if for you the sun is at high noon and for us at a quarter to twelve.

The role of a writer in 2017.

“Four mornings a week Murray Kempton, the Huckleberry Finn of American journalism, climbs onto his bicycle and pedals out into the world in search of what may be there. For more than thirty years he has been finding things other writers have not even thought to look for, and he has done so with a compelling humanity that is rare not just in his profession but in the human race as well. I have followed him as he made his regular rounds, and I have eaten at his table, and I am not all that certain that he is not the greatest man I have ever met.”