A profile of NASCAR Dale Earnhardt Jr., who is returning to racing after a series of concussions.

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.

How did Josh Tetrick’s vegan-mayo company become a Silicon Valley darling—and what is he really selling?

The travel forum removed warnings about rapes and injuries at Mexico resorts, tourists say.

How a fight to stop a potentially toxic Costco chicken plant in Nebraska made common cause of small-town environmentalists and anti-Muslim xenophobes.

“We are better than the stories about us.”

A feat of elegant design wowed elite architects and promised to bring education to poor children in Nigeria. Then it collapsed.

The latest federal NCAA probe is no different.

How the rapper smuggled his radical anticapitalism into his new film Sorry to Bother You.

Men have become increasingly infertile, so much so that within a generation they may lose the ability to reproduce entirely.

A daughter investigates her father’s belief that the government is subjecting him and thousands more to to mind control.

Two decades after his last deadly act of ecoterrorism, the Unabomber has become an unlikely prophet to a new generation of acolytes.

A lifelong runner is hit with a mysterious physical breakdown and forced to begin contemplating the end.

In South Carolina, civil forfeiture targets black people’s money most of all, exclusive investigative data shows.

An essay on why fear may be the only thing that saves humanity from climate change.

A fight that has nothing to do with gun control is ripping through the grieving community.

Burmese amber offers paleontologists an unprecedented glimpse into the Cretaceous. But it comes from a conflict zone.

A profile of Tyshawn Jones, “one of the most exciting skateboarders in a generation.”

A visit to a colonial debutante ball in Texas, where girls wear hundred-pound dresses and pretend to be Martha Washington.

South of San Francisco, in a fertile corner of California that feeds much of the country, working families are sleeping in shelters and parking lots.

How a bunch of Canadian hipsters wound up smuggling cocaine (and getting caught).