A 13-year-old girl was declared brain-dead, but her family disagreed. Her case challenges the very nature of existence.

How infighting splintered a group of players once unified in the movement started by Colin Kaepernick.

On the future of personal taste.

How a senseless double murder in Florida exposed the rise of an organized fascist youth movement in the United States.

An acclaimed American charity said it was saving some of the world’s most vulnerable girls from sexual exploitation. But from the very beginning, girls were being raped.

Wealthy businessman Merv Bodnarchuk put together the dream team of curling. Then he put himself in the lineup.

An investigation into the impact of only focusing on assault rifles.

Was the attack outside of the LeBaron compound really by a cartel?

The world is consumed by violent fights and hostile disagreements. Sarah Schulman sees a way out of them.

A visit to the Christian rock Cross-Over Festival in Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri.

The war between Major League Baseball and Alex Rodriguez, “fought with six-figure payoffs in the tanning salons and strip malls of South Florida.”

It comes from the soil of the desert Southwest. Inhaled, it can cause incurable, even fatal illness. And, thanks to global warming, valley fever is spreading fast.

The story of “the biggest retail hack in U.S. history.”

The business of sound.

An annual re-enactment drags America’s history of racist violence into the light.

ProDoula wants to revolutionize the touchy-feely doula profession — and make millions of dollars along the way.

A son’s memory of the father he lost at 13, excerpted from The Magical Stranger.

On the dangerous glut of visitors looking to conquer Mt. Everest, where there is sometimes a two-hour wait to climb the Hillary Step.

“Violence, being instrumental by nature, is rational to the extent that it is effective in reaching the end which must justify it.”

A New York gossip reporter makes her way in the wilds of European bureaucracy.

Pennsylvania is on the verge of saying yes.

The final days of the last Navy SEAL to die in Afghanistan.

The story of the 2010 NCAA championship game between Duke and Butler, and what would have been greatest shot in college basketball history.

The story of a college town and the most devastating tornado in Alabama history.

The selfie may have ended any hope of resurrecting New York’s nightlife.