The N.S.A. claims it needs access to all our phone records. But is that the best way to catch a terrorist?

The voices we generally hear on public radio reflect only a narrow range of experiences, particularly with regards to race. There’s a cost to that.

Everyone just wants to know if he’s going to the football game.

From Hong Kong to Bangkok to the Golden Triangle, the author searches for something everyone says no longer exists: an opium den.

A psychological theory emerges to explain why young Americans are taking a while to grow up.

A trip to the Russian baths helps author start to see the good in his terrible eyesight.

“Oh my God, the NFL is using every trick in the book to market to kids.”

The life of Kimi Peck, a former screenwriter, once married to Gregory Peck’s son, who turned to “saving” stray dogs.

Australian scientists Pat and Peter Shaw always planned to take their lives, together. After saying goodbye to their daughters last October, they did.

“Seeing a partial eclipse bears the same relation to seeing a total eclipse as kissing a man does to marrying him.”

To make sense of the Special Counsel, you have to revisit some of the bloodiest battles of Vietnam.

“The job is to be enough of a personality that they want to know what you think.”

In her fight to end sexual abuse, the Olympic champion is challenging the very institutions she led to glory.

Laura Levis did everything she could to save herself when an asthma attack began. How could she have been left to die just outside the emergency room?

It’s dangerous to blame the decline of one species on a single predator. We humans like to do it anyway.

On learning to live with the urge to die.

Athletic director Chris Hixon died in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school. As a nation watched, his wife Debbi had to find a way to grieve.

The people who run these platforms have to make decisions about the greater good—whether they want to or not.

“Wonder Boy” is heading to the NBA, and he’s out to change how we think about European imports.

From legal battles to securing vendors to getting the walls painted, every budget line is a struggle.

Xi Jinping is using artificial intelligence to enhance his government’s totalitarian control—and he’s exporting this technology to regimes around the globe.

In Kabul, one of the world’s most dangerous cities, one man works to help Afghan migrants return to a place they never knew.

The CIA plan to grab or kill Julian Assange before a theoretical escape to Moscow.

There exists a swarm of angry sports fans who maintain that they do not want to talk about Colin Kaepernick or the national anthem, and Barstool has cleared a space for them to gather and talk, mostly, about just how much they don’t want to talk about politics. They claim to be an overlooked majority — the vast market inefficiency that will richly reward anyone who will let them watch their games, memes and funny videos without having to feel bad about themselves. Barstool is their safe space.

An essay about artificial intelligence, emotional intelligence, and finding an ending.

By the time I got access to the model, it was late July, 2020. In the fifth month of quarantine, having recently moved home to face my teenage journals, I wasn’t sure if I missed talking to strangers or to Omar. But I wanted to know if, with enough prodding, I could turn GPT-3 into either, or at least convince myself that I had.