A profile of the singer as he returns to the stage for the first time in a dozen years.

On caring for a bipolar parent amidst a broken mental health care system.

On the surprising radicalism of library music – “music that has been composed and recorded for commercial purposes.”

Immune systems don’t make for clean narratives, even as we expect them to keep us pure.

We are all going to die. So what does it look like?

Can a company best known for explaining Kanye West lyrics and telling Warren Buffett to do unseemly things actually annotate the world?

The dilemma of providing quality health care for undocumented immigrants, and how one city is attempting to solve it.

A UVA alum goes back for the first rush week since the Rolling Stone story.

Renovating often involves additional, unforseen costs, but for one Toronto couple it ends in divorce – and death.

Perhaps because your people have always hunted them. But also because there’s demand in New York fashion circles for their pelts.

A treatment for liver cancer gives the writer a fresh perspective on illness – and wellness.

The “zone of sacrifice” that is Oxnard, California, where low-income workers are paying the price for pesticide use and chemical dumping.

The hockey legend’s new life as a medical icon for a questionable stem-cell treatment.

How an L.A. high school dropout became an enforcer for Mexican cartels and ended up on the F.B.I. Most Wanted List.

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

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

“There’s no blueprint for remediating a radioactive town and then moving people back into it.”

A profile of 36-year-old curator Loïc Gouzer, who has made millions for Christie’s.

A boy whose skin blisters at the smallest touch is fighting for his life.

Anna Nicole Smith molded herself into an American fantasy. When that fantasy fell apart, we blamed her for it.

The long legal saga of Kerry Max Cook, who for almost 40 years fought to clear his name after being convicted of murder.

When Michael Deng joined an Asian-American frat, he was searching for belonging and identity. Two months later he was dead.

How dangerous is the media company that Steve Bannon called “the platform for the alt-right”?

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

For decades, “abnormal” embryos were thrown away during the IVF process. Then some pioneering doctors — and patients — decided to use them anyway.