The parents indicted in the college-admissions scandal were responding to a changing America, with rage at being robbed of what they believed was rightfully theirs.

Five years ago, the flight vanished into the Indian Ocean. Officials on land know more about why than they dare to say.

What the opioid crisis has done to one indigenous family in Alaska–the writer’s.

Humans have always sensed the ghosts of loved ones. It’s only in the last century that we convinced ourselves this was a problem.

The inside story of the megadonor and the Chinese casino money flooding our elections.

The trucker blew a stop sign and hit a bus full of teenagers. Now the families of the dead grapple with their capacity to forgive.

Black people formed one of the largest militias in the U.S. Now its leader is in prosecutors’ crosshairs.

The Chinese team heads to the home of elite running.

The survivors of a mass shooting, 20 years later.

Why a decades-long string of murders near the Mexican border has gone unsolved.

The author ponders the dissolution of his own marriage, and others.

The history of Kraft Dinner, Canada’s “de facto national dish.”

The debate over autonomous lethal drones.

The deadly hazing that destroyed a legendary college marching band.

The life and work of Nelson Algren.

How Republicans came to be the party of white people.

Patsy Cline’s hometown and the debate over her legacy.

The economics of freelance journalism in 2013.

Inside the women’s ward at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center.

The drunken genius of Harry Nilsson, the American Beatle.

Ego, hubris, and the failure to adapt.

The capitalist evangelism of Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In feminist manifesto.

Behind-the-scenes the Cincinnati Ben-Gal cheerleaders.

The demise of an NFL player.