In Colorado and beyond, a negotiated surrender in the war on drugs.

The King of Rwanda is 76 years old, 7 feet 2 inches tall, and lives on public assistance in a small apartment in Virginia.

On immigration detainees in the United Kingdom, and the suffering that lands them in detention.

A trailer and the people who lived with Dylann Roof in it before he killed nine people in a Charleston church.

Nearly every American soldier injured in Iraq or Afghanistan is treated—for a few days at least—at a single hospital in Landstuhl, Germany.

On a failed attack in Spokane and the fragments of homegrown terrorism in the United States.

When should a football player, and in particular one who has suffered three concussions in 10 months, retire?

A patient arrives in a therapist’s office complaining of writer’s block. He’s not in search of the talking cure, though.

Sex in the NBA in the wake of Magic Johnson’s HIV announcement.

The story of two weeks when the most wanted man in the world was hidden in the depths of a Hong Kong slum.

The director of The Exorcist visits the Vatican’s 91-year-old in-house exorcist in Rome.

Abraham never fit in. Hisham finally felt at home. Then their worlds collided in western Arkansas.

In many countries, journalists are being targeted because of the role they play in ensuring a free and informed society.

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.

What happens when a wealthy patron wears out his welcome in the “strangest, most conflicted place in all of Texas”?

Who was in a cult. Who lost his yacht. Who did not stab a man in the eye.

Gold mined in the jungles of Peru brought riches to three friends in Miami—but it also carried ruin.

The president is overseeing a sea change in the world of economic policy, and so much hangs in the balance.

When a child vanished in Nova Scotia, online sleuths got involved in the search. Then they lost their way.

“Like they said in Step Brothers: Never lose your dinosaur. This is the ultimate example of a person never losing his dinosaur. Meaning that even as I grew in cultural awareness and respect and was put higher in the class system in some way for being this musician, I never lost my dinosaur.”

“Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to make the meaning clearer. It consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug.”

Encountering a pack of wild dogs in Manhattan.

On working in an artists’ colony.

A sport in flux.