A profile of the overlooked icon who forever changed the way Indigenous people are depicted onscreen.

How a drifter from Milwaukee became the chief executioner of the Cuban Revolution—and a test case for U.S. civil rights.

The joys—and absurdities—of finding oneself abandoned in a desolate landscape.

A Thanksgiving story about the limits of human empathy.

Stephanie had cancer, until she didn’t.

The $200 billion industry behind the Snuggie.

“‘Have you ever killed anybody?’”

A personal reconstruction.

Colin Powell’s battle with the Bush administration.

Scott Dadich, 34, has been described by a former boss as a “combination of Pelé and Jesus” and is now tasked with figuring out the future of the magazine. All he’s got in his new Times Square office: an iPad and a book of George Lois’ Esquire covers.

How “tissue engineering” will change regenerative medicine.

On the Miss America pageant.

Discovering why we hurt.

A dispatch from North Carolina.

How order collapsed in an American city.

For a period of time in 2013, the Times reported this year, a full half of YouTube traffic was “bots masquerading as people,” a portion so high that employees feared an inflection point after which YouTube’s systems for detecting fraudulent traffic would begin to regard bot traffic as real and human traffic as fake. They called this hypothetical event “the Inversion.”

In the past dozen years, state and local judges have repeatedly escaped public accountability for misdeeds that have victimized thousands. Nine of 10 kept their jobs, a Reuters investigation found – including an Alabama judge who unlawfully jailed hundreds of poor people, many of them Black, over traffic fines.

An argument for working less.

A profile.

On faith and football.