A report from campus after the rape allegations against members of the lacrosse team.

On the ouster of CEO Janet Robinson and the company’s financial woes.

The president of Kiribati goes to Norway to bear witness to climate change.

On the coming age of domestic drones.

The rise of anonymous group suicide in Japan.

A jury foreman on the messy effectiveness of the American justice system.

On the (disputed) origins of the Huffington Post.

The decline of the American autopsy and what it says about modern medicine.

The looming collapse of agriculture on the Great Plains.

Inside the fall of Village Voice Media’s backpage.com.

The mass deportation of the Siberian Kalmyk people by Stalin still reverberates.

Millennials are facing the scariest financial future of any generation since the Great Depression.

A profile of the actress.

The rise and fall of fraudster John DeLorean.

Inside the dysfunctional world of the Los Angeles Lakers.

Madewell’s authenticity problem, written by the great-grandson of the company’s founder.

Today’s South Asian Southern chefs stand on the shoulders of the late Raji Jallepalli.

Will the literature of the suburbs be written on TikTok?

He is a cheerful old farmer who jokes as he serves rice cakes made by his wife, and then he switches easily to explaining what it is like to cut open a 30-year-old man who is tied naked to a bed and dissect him alive, without anesthetic.

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.

On the strengths and limitations of the Republican frontrunner:

“The Mormon’s never going to win the who-do-you-want-to-have-a-beer-with contest,” concedes one adviser, while another acknowledges, “He’s never had the experience of sitting in a bar, and like, talking.”

The city of Boston, the Tea Party movement, and the rightful heir to the American Revolution.