“I learned about sex in a Laundromat. The setting wasn’t my idea. It was my mother’s who had brought me along on washday to break the news.”

When her former student was found wandering the streets a decade after she’d last seen him, Michelle Girard immediately agreed to take him in. Then she decided to do far more, including give him the Christmas he’d never had.

Ahmaud Arbery went out for a jog and was gunned down in the street. How running fails Black America.

What happened when the founder of North Face and Esprit bought a chunk of Chile the size of a small state, intending to live with a select group inside it and turn it case study for ecological preservation. It turned out, however, that Chileans didn’t really like that idea.

On the hanging of James Murphy, murderer.

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

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.

The shame of family detention camps on the U.S. border.

Old India and new, viewed through the prism of the writer’s hometown.

A profile of the man behind the “7 Habits.”

The life and death of Johnny Romano, the youngest pro skateboarder ever.

A personal account of the human network behind the leak.

The life cycle of a drilling platform.