How the overdiagnosis of disease makes for unnecessary treatment, high anxiety, and ballooning costs.

An obituary for Toronto’s notorious former mayor.

One woman’s hunt for possibility after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis.

In their struggle for survival, bees have an unlikely ally: Monsanto.

For insect detectives, the trickiest cases involve the bugs that aren’t really there.

Argentina’s grandmothers are still searching for the stolen babies born in the dictatorship’s secret prisons.

A former US Army officer is now a general for a country accused of war crimes.

Should art be a battleground for social justice?

Searching for the star behind Dlisted.

He was on a flight bound for the English Premier League. Then he was gone.

What climate change means for kids in New York.

The long, loving search for Betsy, bovine escape artist.

As ISIS retreats, new horrors emerge for a Sunni family.

On the centuries-long search for the perfect hangover remedy.

Tennessee’s sick and dying coal ash cleanup workers fight for their lives.

On trying, and failing, to qualify for the USA Olympic Marathon Trials.

An obituary for the baseball legend.

How the Assad regime tracked and killed Marie Colvin for reporting on war crimes in Syria.

Margaret Keane’s husband stole credit for her iconic paintings, basking in fame and fortune that should have been hers for years. Then she told a reporter the truth.

For decades, dozens of men with intellectual disabilities lived in an old schoolhouse and did gruesome work in a turkey plant for subminimum wage. No one noticed.

The founding fathers deserve at least some of the blame for the worst presidencies in American history—they created an office that’s vaguely defined and ripe for abuse. Plus: how to fix it.

They’re friends who once vied for the same jobs. Now, as editors of The New York Times and The Washington Post, they’re locked in a daily battle for Trump scoops.

Andrew Goldstein’s crime set in motion a dramatic shift in how we care for the violent mentally ill. Including for himself—when he’s released this month.

New research is zeroing in on a biochemical basis for the placebo effect — possibly opening a Pandora’s box for Western medicine.

Cancer surgery for $700, a heart bypass for $2,000. Pretty good, but under India’s new health-care system, it’s not good enough.