The bizarre tale–and unlikely turnaround–of an NHL player who tried to have his youth coach murdered.

The life and death of a reporter.

An open letter on Grand Theft Auto 5 and aging out of the Rockstar Games franchise.

On simplicity, self-reliance and refusing to cooperate with “the apparatus of secrecy” that surrounds online surveillance.

The greatest stand-up of his generation is also his own worst enemy.

Balancing the creation of a house with living in it as a home.

What former NBA coach Monty Williams learned in the wake of losing his wife.

As a father succumbs to lung cancer, his son tries to recreate his personality in the form of a chatbot.

How a fight to stop a potentially toxic Costco chicken plant in Nebraska made common cause of small-town environmentalists and anti-Muslim xenophobes.

A feat of elegant design wowed elite architects and promised to bring education to poor children in Nigeria. Then it collapsed.

In South Carolina, civil forfeiture targets black people’s money most of all, exclusive investigative data shows.

How a bunch of Canadian hipsters wound up smuggling cocaine (and getting caught).

The difficult final year of a much-loved and legendarily difficult woman.

What could the political effects be of a media that actually served working-class Americans?

A pilot program in Mississippi offers a glimpse of the possibilities.

A profile of the actor, who died yesterday at age 43.

An interview with the creator and star of “I May Destroy You.”

Private executioners paid in cash. Middle-of-the-night killings. False or incomplete justifications.

Inside the race to eliminate one of nature’s biggest threats.

A shipping container spewing radiation appears mysteriously at an Italian port, prompting a larger look at the anonymous world of international shipping.

“Thug is alone even in a room full of people. He is unapproachable. He radiates volatility. I can't even imagine him making actual, on-purpose eye contact with another human. Looking into a person's eyes—seeking some kind of a connection—is an admission of neediness, and Young Thug would rather be shot dead in the street than need a thing from another human being.”

"I don't know if I was as angry as much as I was misunderstood.  A lot of the things we did contained a lot of humor that went over people's heads."

“They cruise the city in chauffeured cars, blasting rap, selling pot to classmates. How some of New York’s richest kids joined forces with some of its poorest.”

Maine adopted Kenyan runner Moninda Marube as a symbol of human trafficking’s invisible casualties. But a close look at his case raises hard questions — and illustrates the challenge of investigating and prosecuting trafficking crimes.