A father-son trip to the Playa.

An asshole learns to sing.

A serial killer attempts to donate an organ.

On the media’s failure to cover climate change.

The story of Héctor Espino, the greatest hitter never to play in the majors.

A profile of the boxer Floyd Patterson, after a painful loss to Sonny Liston.

The people working to make energy efficient homes cheap.

“Deep down, he wants to be Madonna.”

Two men try to disrupt the gray market of Chinese death services.

On the ground with a young Texas doctor who travels the state to provide abortions.

What it’s like to drive tourists around the Australian outback.

On the quarterback everyone loves to hate.

Middle class apps struggle to survive.

A jeweler from Queens tries to crack the code.

The long road to Google’s self-driving car.

On using data to hire and fire.

An ode to an enduring cult classic and its author, Katherine Dunn.

On a neuroscientist’s personal mission to solve the mystery of how the brain processes time.

What happens to 7-footers when they step off the basketball court?

Brandon Darby’s journey from revolutionary activist to FBI informant.

Is the desire in teens to switch their sex a mental disorder that needs treatment?

When your house is the set of One Tree Hill:

On one shoot, I remember, I'd been confused about where they needed to set up (confession: hungover), and as a result neglected to clean the bedroom. Later, a crew guy—the same one who'd told me about Blue Velvet—said, "I'm not used to picking up other people's underwear." I felt like saying, Then don't go into their bedrooms at nine o'clock in the morning! Except… he was paying to be in my bedroom.

 The same forces that put his family in the slum also gave him the golf course on the other side of the wall, and the teachers and sponsors, and the strange ability to hit a ball with a club. But it still doesn't make sense. Sometimes it seems as if fate is wrestling with itself, making sure the circumstances of his birth are always conspiring to take away whatever gifts might allow him to escape it. He lives in two worlds, each one pulling away from the other. Anil is in the middle, trying to keep his balance.

Taking the measure of the president, with a view to history.