On the ground with a young Texas doctor who travels the state to provide abortions.

Maintaining the manual On Writing Well.

Investigating the murky reality behind the attack in Libya.

The search for the world’s most elusive skyjacker.

On Rupert Murdoch and the tabloid culture he created in the U.K.

The man for whom the term “jet-setter” was coined left a bitterly fractured estate.

What American towns named Paris can tell us about the French.

Apples, plastic bags, teeth. The author’s letter to his unborn child.

A child genius living in poverty, her mother, and the benefactor who became their tormenter.

Projectionist provocateur Robin Bell lights up the night.

How a cartel invented and marketed the modern diamond.

The days, weeks, and months after the worst mass shooting in modern American history.

Greed, gringos, diesel, drugs, shamans, seaweed, and a disco ball in the jungle.

Reckoning with the American flag.

On the legal quagmire facing the President if Joe Biden wins.

On the questions DNA tests answer and the new ones they create.

“At 54, after 30 years of marriage and two of loneliness, I went online to find a man and found Dean.”

A three-part essay on love, loss, and what comes in between.

An oral history of Saturday Night Live.

Part of our guide to SNL for Slate.

A profile of Larry David, with a focus on his years as a struggling stand-up. “I was hoping that somehow I could get some kind of cult following and get by with that.”

A reporter on her way out of India probes a case of a woman beaten to death by her husband in public.

For a rebellious, Korean-American teen like myself who was awkwardly trying to situate himself, without much success, Jackson’s writing, with its rap and jazz references and its relentless, engaging voice, provided a vision of Black agency that felt almost illicit.

Paul Wulff, a college football coach, was only 12 when his mother vanished from their family home. After 41 years of searching, he finally has been able to piece together some details of a mystery that upended both his life and family.

Jillian Lauren, wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner, grew up middle class and now lives in a three-bedroom house in L.A. In between, she was a part of a royal harem in Brunei.

A profile of Jack Dorsey, co-founder (and displaced CEO) of Twitter. Dorsey’s latest venture, a mobile credit card system called Square that only officially launched in February 2011, already processes more than a million transactions per day.

After 20 years of long-distance competition, I ran my fastest. All it took was tech, training, and a new understanding of my life.