On the penalties imposed – or not – on prison guards who have sex with inmates.

Creating – and revising – the Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm.

The president’s eulogy for the Reverend Clementa Pinckney.

The costs of a life spent reporting on spies.

Behind the scenes with the creator of Black-ish.

The story of Aiden Sinclair, the “grifter magician.”

The troubling final years of Mickey Rooney’s life.

One woman’s attempt to break the speed record on the Pacific Crest Trail.

The real journalists who inspired the movie look back on their investigation.

On the profound power of the placebo.

A conversation on the Times Square of the ’50s and ’60s.

Tracing the Boston Marathon route via the people who live and work along its course.

Two killers and one cop: The story of the LaMarca family, told over three generations.

The perspective-bending art of identical twins Trevor and Ryan Oakes.

An essay on the evolving narrative of martyrdom in the Islamist and secular worlds.

THEY SAY YOU never hear the one that hits you. That's true of bullets, because, if you hear them, they are already past. But your correspondent heard the last shell that hit this hotel. He heard it start from the battery, then come with a whistling incommg roar like a subway train to crash against the cornice and shower the room with broken glass and plaster. And while the glass still tinkled down and you listened for the next one to start, you realized that now finally you were back in Madrid.

Meet Ben Sherwood, the new head of the Disney/ABC Television Group.

The shame of family detention camps on the U.S. border.

The most coveted items on the prison menu are salt and pepper packets.

Old India and new, viewed through the prism of the writer’s hometown.

Sex, the Constitution, and the Supreme Court.

On the mysteries of the man behind Alice in Wonderland.

A year in the life of an oxycodone addict.

The story behind “the best brisket you’ll ever eat.”