The story of one of the great final acts in sports history.

“We know we down in this shithole together.”

A Bad Boy coaches in the WNBA.

On the epidemic of deaths in jails.

Giving birth as a black woman in America.

A profile of the youngest Black woman in Congress.

When the author’s wife was dying, his best friend moved in.

“There is no hierarchy in the web of life.”

How reading can lead to resilience in the most trying times.

Almost five years ago, the author’s 13-year-old niece was murdered in her bedroom in suburban New Delhi. Since then, both of her parents have spent time in jail. Evidence, bungled by police, points to another possible killer. The trial has not yet begun.

A thousand years ago, huge pyramids and earthen mounds stood where East St. Louis sprawls today in Southern Illinois... At the city's apex in 1100, the population exploded to as many as 30 thousand people. It was the largest pre-Columbian city in North America, bigger than London or Paris at the time.

Why little has changed in popular American style in the last 20 years.

Why is this happening? In some large measure, I think, it’s an unconscious collective reaction to all the profound nonstop newness we’re experiencing on the tech and geopolitical and economic fronts. People have a limited capacity to embrace flux and strangeness and dissatisfaction, and right now we’re maxed out.

At 25, Stephen Glass was the most sought-after young reporter in the nation’s capital, producing knockout articles for magazines ranging from The New Republic to Rolling Stone. Trouble was, he made things up—sources, quotes, whole stories—in a breathtaking web of deception that emerged as the most sustained fraud in modern journalism.

The story of a massacre in El Salvador.

An execution in war-torn Cuba.

In the aftermath of rape, a transition from prey to predator.

A gardener in Newark, NJ tries to grow the world’s best peppers.

An experiment in public defense.

In the U.S. military, more than half of rape victims are men.

On America’s vanishing night sky and life in perpetual light.

Reinventing a once-great whisky distillery in Scotland.

A profile of Gina Rinehart, the richest person in Australia.

A new era in the search for life on Mars.

A crash course in Tantra and superficial spirituality.

The fate of a star 16-year-old pitcher in Japan.