[Part 2 of 2] The story behind this spring’s spate of retributive murders in Southwest D.C.

April Savino, a teenage homeless runaway, lived in Grand Central Terminal from 1984 until 1987 when she committed suicide on the steps of a nearby church.

On the golden anniversary of her first trip to study chimps, an ode to Jane Goodall.

A profile of Sorkin, who wrote The Social Network. “I don’t feel like a nerd,” he says, “but I think I understand them.”

How the mind behind Lemmings and Grand Theft Auto plans to push gaming further.

On the set of Afghanistan’s first soap opera and at home with its cast.

An interview with mind behind both Five Easy Pieces and The Monkees.

A jogging buddy collapses during a marathon, his heart suddenly finished beating. The writer goes looking for answers.

On Sam Cooke, theme parties, and the importance of McDonald’s-related jingles when street performing.

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 update to Into the Wild.

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.

Two floors of a building in prime Brooklyn for $1000 a month seemed too good to be true. It was.

A Republican primary postmortem with the brains behind Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio’s respective campaigns.

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

“We have a lot in common. We go to the same shrink.”

In Arctic Siberia, Russian scientists are trying to stave off catastrophic climate change—by resurrecting an Ice Age biome complete with lab-grown woolly mammoths.

As a right-wing terrorist cell went on a seven-year killing spree, did authorities look the other way?

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

Why do America’s black gay and bisexual men have a higher H.I.V. rate than any country in the world?

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

The ’90s icon and Nine Inch Nails frontman talks about listening to music, his own and others, in 2017.

A 2016 investigation into why Houston wasn’t ready for the next big hurricane.