Politicians want to rein in the retail giant. But Jeff Bezos, the master of cutthroat capitalism, is ready to fight back.

The fossil-fuel companies expect to profit from climate change. I went to a private planning meeting and took notes.

Renée Bach went to Uganda to save children—but many in her care died. Was she responsible?

The quest to transform this country cannot be limited to challenging its brutal police.

What happened when 59-year-old Paralympian Angela Madsen set out to row from California to Hawaii.

While Covid-19 deaths in the United States skyrocket, Germans have managed to largely contain the damage. What do we need to learn?

As vaccines roll out, the U.S. will face a choice about what to learn and what to forget.

For some workers, the pandemic brought new meaning to a nationwide movement to raise the minimum wage.

A trip to Kingston, Jamaica to track down Bunny Wailer, a reggae legend now living “in his own private Zion.”

When the Arlee Warriors cleared an astonishing path to the state basketball championship, they brought healing to the community.

To deal with climate change and power the cars of tomorrow, we’ll have to solve the cobalt problem.

The social network positioned its plan to bring the internet to millions of Indians as a gift. The country saw a catch.

A conversation about race, Hollywood, and what it’s like to be able to conjure weed out of thin air.

Forty years after the dirty wars and Pinochet’s coup, photographer David Burnett journeys back to Chile to visit the subject of his most famous image.

The gospel according to nine-year-olds; a missionary group that won the right to evangelize in schools and how children process their message.

A filmmaker goes to court to fight the television commercial break.

Immigrant farmers are flocking to the poultry industry – only to become 21st-century sharecroppers for companies like Tyson.

Her parents wanted Jennifer to be successful. The pressure may have led her to plot their murder.

Incremental changes in abortion laws lead to a system where women “turn themselves into pretzels” just to find a doctor.

When they go to bed tonight, white people will be five times likelier to get a good night’s sleep than African-Americans.

An attempt to figure out how the Times columnist came to care more about personal morality than politics.

For decades, airlines failed to turn a profit despite having a monopoly on the sky. This year they’re expected to make billions. Here’s why.

A writer returns home to find a toxic disaster, giant government failure, and countless children exposed to lead.

Mamoru Samuragochi’s story turned out to be too good to be true.

Three siblings from Chicago ran away to become jihadis. Is it fair to try them as terrorists?