For years, the candidate for Kansas governor has defended towns that passed anti-immigration ordinances. The towns have lost big — but Kobach has fared considerably better.

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

Stare at the game long enough and the distance between everything—players, league, game, court, self, other—begins to collapse. Everything becomes a metaphor for everything else, the league and your life each generating infinite layers of meaning for the other.

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.

After years of outsourcing, many essential staff work for the NHS without receiving its benefits. In one London hospital, the fight is on for a better deal.

On “soldiers for credibility” and the tug of war over truth.

Elegy for Aleppo.

On leaving New York for Portland.

On serving time for crimes not yet committed.

Calculating restitution for victims of child pornography.

When there are too few jobs for an entire generation.

On Ambien and the search for the next blockbuster insomnia drug.

On Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu’s lust for blood-sport.

On being—and playing for—Lady Vols basketball coach Pat Summitt.

Searching for the reclusive band’s studio in Düsseldorf.

The search for a missing soldier.

Ina May Gaskin and the battle for at-home births.

The scientific case for brain preservation and mind uploading.

Looking to Nietzsche for self-help.

The woman trophy hunter, notorious for her controversial “hero shot” beside a dead giraffe, profiled.

The search for answers after the worst American rail disaster in decades.

For the first time since exposing the atrocities at Abu Ghraib, Joe Darby speaks out.

Searching for sanctuary with American war deserters.

A home for troubled children in California comes undone.