Against all predictions, the Taliban took the Afghan capital in a matter of hours. This is the story of why and what came after, by a reporter and photographer who witnessed it all.

“Miles Davis was a deeply competitive artist, and the idea that he was losing audiences to white rock musicians with inferior skills—and, worse, had to open for them at concerts—inspired him to beat them at their own game. But he did so very much on his own terms.”

There is no script for losing a spouse in your 30s.

On the casting process for New York’s cult leader-like spin instructors.

On trying out for the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

A eulogy for a movement.

Why did Yousef Muslet face life in prison for an everyday gesture?

How the hospitality world rents space for physicians to train.

Was Dr. Alexander Mishkin, Hero of Russia, responsible for the Skripal poisoning?

The story was told by Sports Illustrated, CBS News, and countless others: linbeacker Manti Te’o, Heisman trophy candidate and the face of Notre Dame football, was playing brilliantly despite the tragic loss of his girlfriend to leukemia early in the season. The reporters missed one key element of Te’o’s story, however: the girl hadn’t died. She couldn’t have. She didn’t exist.

A case for why race has been the real story of the Obama presidency all along.

The story of a naïve fisherman, a boat headed for Spain and 1.5 tons of cocaine.

It’s now routine for corporations to outsource the task of generating new ideas. A look at the consulting firms who meet that need.

Africa’s most important economy now appears to function for the benefit of one powerful family—the Guptas.

In 2005, the painting sold at auction for $1,000. Its most recent price? $450 million.

For hundreds of years, there were rumors of a shipwrecked treasure on the Oregon coast. But no one found anything, until Cameron La Follette began digging.

A teenage clerk dialed 911. How should the brothers who own CUP Foods pay for what happened next?

The pandemic offered an unprecedented opportunity for the researchers who study why and how we dream.

Mykal Riley’s last-second three-pointer kept thousands of fans out of the path of a tornado. Just as remarkable? That Riley was there to take the shot in the first place.

The author boards the Costa Atlantica for several days of line dancing, burlesque and buffets as part of the cruise industry’s new foray into China.

“We are invited to listen, but never to truly join the narrative, for to speak as the slave would, to say that we are as happy for the Civil War as most Americans are for the Revolutionary War, is to rupture the narrative.”

A profile of Ken Griffey, Jr., six years after he last played a baseball game.

In the early ’90s, American Airlines began selling lifetime passes for unlimited first-class travel. It hasn’t worked out well for the airline.

How legends of the American music industry made millions off the work of Solomon Linda, a Zulu tribesman who wrote “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” and died a pauper.