A profile of the writer behind “Deep Thoughts” on Saturday Night Live.

A decade in the life of America’s wiliest coyote.

How a Madrid workshop is perfecting the art of copying imperiled art, from Egyptian tombs to Renaissance paintings.

On the Netflix hit drama and its show runner, Beau Willimon.

On Gabo and his complicated role in the country of his birth, Colombia.

An immigrant from Lebanon, a hair-cutting fortune, and the dream of building a castle on an island in British Columbia.

On the fear-mongering history of sex education.

Joseph Mitchell used composites in his non-fiction, invented characters and added flourishes to his facts. Does it matter?

An investigative look at the killing of Trayvon Martin.

Why one physician took the risk of becoming an F.B.I. informant to expose alleged Medicare fraud.

Happy 59th! Or is it 58th? Cracking the mystery of Don Mattingly’s birthday.

How did a couple who built an empire of yoga studios and homes with “living walls” end up as pandemic villains?

A history of the ultimate political weapon, which we’ve never understood how to use.

A profile of the comedian, who died Tuesday.

While on a string of tour dates opening for Radiohead, interaction between Mark Linkous’ antidepressants and the Rohypnol he took to sleep caused him to pass out. A hotel maid found him the next morning bent into a position where his legs had been cut off from circulation. When they untangled, built-up potassium shot from his lower body upward, triggering a harmful chain reaction that caused a heart attack and kidney failure.

Two decades later, a traffic stop on a country road is still teaching police officers about deadly force – and the cost of hesitation. Part 1 of “The Trigger and the Choice,” a 3-part series.

Since 1932, the tiny town of Rugby, North Dakota, has claimed to be the geographical center of North America. But as with most things, the truth depends on who’s telling it.

The macabre, ultra-violent plays put on at the Grand Guignol defined an era in Paris, attracting foreign tourists, aristocrats, and celebrities. Goering and Patton saw plays there in the same year. But the carnage of WWII ultimately undermined the shock of Guignol’s brutality, and audiences disappeared.

Did the NBA executive use social media to secretly disparage his players and defend his decisions?

Life on an isolated island utopia.

The elusive director’s early years.

A Montana sheriff and a manhunt in the mountains.

Invented in 1899, it hasn’t been improved upon since.

Hanging out with the Atomic Bombshells in Provincetown, Massachusetts.