Exploring the vast underground world of New York City with three of the people who know it best.

On Baylor’s freshman basketball star Perry Jones and how the new era of one-season careers has changed the landscape of college basketball.

A study of the Mississippi River, its history, and efforts by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to hold it in place.

A profile of Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Body and The 4-Hour Workweek.

On the battle between Shaquille O’Neal and his former IT guy, who’s in control of much of O’Neal’s archived (and often damning) correspondence.

The story of a deadly collision on the D.C. Metro, told from surviving passengers’ point of view.

Searching for the line between courage and humility on an expedition to Cirque of the Unclimbables, a remote ring of perfect rock-climbing mountains in Canada.

On the obsession with the sexual and social habits of American teenage girls.

The bloody reign of Rodrigo Duterte, who was elected President of the Phillipines in May.

After a cop walks into his station and confesses to murder, an investigation reveals the toll of lethal force on both sides of the gun.

How a dating app helped a generation of Chinese come out of the closet.

Many young South Koreans were beginning to live in isolation years before the rest of the world joined them.

Each year, California’s child protective services agencies remove thousands of kids from their homes. The story of how some parents decided to fight back.

An ambitious new system will track scores of species from space—shedding light, scientists hope, on the lingering mysteries of animal movement.

On the Google conundrum:

It’s clearly wrong for all the information in all the world’s books to be in the sole possession of a single company. It’s clearly not ideal that only one company in the world can, with increasing accuracy, translate text between 506 different pairs of languages. On the other hand, if Google doesn’t do these things, who will?

“Think about that: Kim has so thoroughly monetized the very act of living that the money she earns from being filmed going about her life constitutes a relatively small sum compared with the one she generates from allowing people to see pictures and cartoon drawings of the life she has already filmed. She has figured out how to spin the mundanity of being herself—something billions of people do every day for free—into a more lucrative business than being the most famous rapper in the world.”

The dark and dangerous world of extreme cavers.

The business of being Pitbull.

A trip to the capital of Yemen.

The story of one Tibetan’s protest.

On the mountain lions of Los Angeles.

On the criminalization of nondisclosure.

The art of shaping a magazine article.

The perilous attraction of owning exotic pets.

The odyssey of trying to have an illegal abortion 1962.