South of San Francisco, in a fertile corner of California that feeds much of the country, working families are sleeping in shelters and parking lots.

The story behind the iconic photograph of the Holmes family, hiding in the water amidst violent Tasmanian bushfires.

The death of a high school football player and the life that has followed for the kid who made the hit.

The author goes in search of his father’s days as a member of an elite club of sport parachutists.

How social media is fueling gang activity in Chicago.

Happiness is a warm pool.

The creator of Scandal and Grey’s Anatomy offers advice to the Dartmouth class of 2014.

The gangs of Brooklyn’s Brownsville, an area with the higest concentration of public housing in America.

The backstory of “The Duke in His Domain,” Truman Capote’s 1957 New Yorker profile of Marlon Brando.

He outsold Elvis, signed one of the first pay-for-play contracts and befriended Martin Luther King Jr. A profile of Harry Belafonte.

Searching for the real reason why a bunch of kids partying at the empty home of an NFL player became a national story.

On the foreign workers of Dubai, who now make up 90 percent of the city’s population.

A profile of the Bronx immigrant family on the other end of your Chinese takeout menu.

The story of Trina Garnett, “one of approximately 470 prisoners in Pennsylvania serving life without parole for crimes they committed as teenagers.”

A man living in the Boston suburbs learns he could be one of the only survivors of a 1982 massacre in Guatemala.

Finding the thread of depression in the personal history of a friend’s suicide.

A Dutch gallerist made thousands of forgeries and passed them off as the work of real artists. When he was caught, a new con began.

The origin story of the C.I.A.’s covert drone war, which began with the 2004 killing of a Pashtun militant, the result of a secret deal for access to Pakistani airspace.

Lance Stephenson, the latest in a long line of Coney Island basketball prodigies, carries a burden none of his predecessors did: restoring New York City’s reputation as the hoops capital of the world.

Bruce Wisan received one of the toughest assignments ever thrust upon an accountant: to take control of the assets (and by proxy, followers) of the polygamist Mormon breakaway sect, F.L.D.S., after their prophet, Warren Jeffs, went on the lam and their compound was raided.

Is long-term solitary confinement torture?

How P. Rajagopal, the founder of one of the world’s largest vegetarian restaurant chains, got away with murder.

A judge on the history and injustice of the plea bargain in America.

An interview with Murphy at the apex of his power, just before the release of Harlem Nights.

How the next generation of Indian women could break the country’s cycle of early motherhood and forced marriage.