While many trans athletes have become political lightning rods, nonbinary people like Layshia Clarendon are left out of the conversation. In a sex-segregated sports world, where do they fit in?

The early days of Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers.

Fame, fashion, and a trip to the zoo.

How Korean immigrants in L.A. revolutionized fashion’s production cycle.

On the actress’s stellar year.

Spending the summer as a tour guide on a glacier.

An oral history of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth.

A pre-Olympics profile of the now-gold medalist.

Catching “the world’s most prolific criminal fixer of soccer matches.”

A profile of Ferran Adriá.

Life in America without dental care.

Apocalypse camp at the dawn of the Great Extinction.

Afghanistan’s Kyrgyz nomads survive in one of Earth’s most remote places, a pocket of land 14,000 feet high where the currency is sheep, the dream is a road, and many will go an entire lifetime without ever seeing a tree.

On Enrique of Malacca, “the closest thing there is to a hero in the story of Ferdinand Magellan’s horribly botched attempt to circumnavigate the world.”

“None of this should have ever happened. It makes absolutely no sense at all. It’s truly crazy.”

“As a young reporter in Eastern Europe in 2001, I expected to witness the ‘end of history’ and the flowering of democracy. That was just one of the mistakes I made.”

How the veterinary industry went corporate.

“Ikea, it seems, is a genius at selling Ikea.”

A history of the fowl.

Traditions, feuds, and controversies in British pest control.

On rongorongo, which no one can decipher.

The making of a convenience store empire.

A nephew investigates his uncle’s suicide

In 1942, a volley of torpedoes sent the U.S.S. Wasp to the bottom of the Pacific. Earlier this year, a team of wreck hunters set out to find it.

How the 1983 assassination of his father, the president of American University of Beirut, shaped the Golden State Warriors basketball coach.