The billionaire founder of Renaissance Technologies turns to science.

To the KGB and back.

With the suburb’s teens a year after the death of Michael Brown.

“I created Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool.”

At home with the beloved writer and illustrator.

How Fortnite became the Instagram of gaming.

On the world’s (then) largest online community.

On the plight of the baobab tree.

How Black America talks to the White House.

On the cutthroat dealings of the porta-potty business.

The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America.

The neck-and-neck race that electrified the 1982 Boston Marathon.

John Singleton at the release of Boyz n the Hood.

Skiing and partying at the sport’s most dangerous race.

How the English graphic designer set the course for contemporary visual culture.

The family history behind college football’s most talked-about player.

Retracing the writer’s life nearly 60 years after her death.

An oral history of the war in Afghanistan.

Inside the campaign of Joe Biden, “the least formidable front-runner ever.”

On the global money laundering conspiracy Liberty Reserve.

He wants to save classics from whiteness. Can the field survive?

On the murder at Lake Adelle.

“I mean, writers are horribly envious and so nobody likes stars, we always feel like it’s a zero-sum game and whatever stardom somebody else has is being taken directly from us, so we hate the stars. But we also need them. Because the possibility of some level of stardom is what will continue to attract new writers to the game. If you’re a linguistically talented 22-year-old, there’s a list of things you can be: you can work in Hollywood, you can be a blogger, etc. And if being a novelist equates to some quaint thing like being a Morris dancer, who’s going to choose this?”

Doc moves quickly. He takes off his windbreaker, tosses his leather bag on the counter and unzips it. He pulls out a slate-blue polyester vest, V-necked, with six buttons. He raises his arms and jumps into it and then says, with an air of deep satisfaction, "Aah." Doc is proud of his bulletproof vest.

Shot and killed just shy of his 18th birthday, Deonte Hoard was one of 489 homicide victims in Chicago last year. How this happened—and how it keeps happening—is both one person’s story and the story of how a community has been forced to adjust to murder as an everyday fact of life.