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?

On the hanging of James Murphy, murderer.

On the sudden death of an up-and-coming rapper.

Life on the other side of the laptop.

The harrowing first ascent of the mountain’s West Ridge.

The bizarre battle over the Call of Duty video game franchise.

What remains of the past’s cutting edge.

The author, who died last week, tells the story of his guns.

On the slaughter of songbirds migrating across the Mediterranean.

The legacy of the Scopes trial on one Tennesse town.

The costs of a life spent reporting on spies.

Behind the scenes with the creator of Black-ish.

The story of Aiden Sinclair, the “grifter magician.”

The troubling final years of Mickey Rooney’s life.

On the profound power of the placebo.

A conversation on the Times Square of the ’50s and ’60s.

The perspective-bending art of identical twins Trevor and Ryan Oakes.

An essay on the evolving narrative of martyrdom in the Islamist and secular worlds.

Meet Ben Sherwood, the new head of the Disney/ABC Television Group.