Throughout 2015 and 2016, amid a series of conversations I had socially with gay and bisexual men about chemsex, new, darker elements to this scene began to emerge; details from unconnected participants that mirrored each other – the same incidents, the same crimes, sometimes even the same culprits. Together they formed a picture: that beneath the surface reports about chemsex – the endless hedonism, the irresistibly intense sex – there is a much blacker sea, unmapped.

With abortion access limited in many states, should some home abortions still be a crime?

A law-enforcement official released the documents after finding that additional suspicious transactions did not appear in a government database.

“I always said that when my time came I’d want to go fast. But where’s the fun in that?”

What’s a typical immigrant story? In his new film, “Minari,” the “Walking Dead” star has his own to tell.

Kidnapped by rebels when he was 9, Dominic Ongwen grew up to command fighters who slaughtered, raped, and pillaged. Is he guilty of heinous crimes or was he a hostage the whole time?

On 30 years of Long Island politics.

Was one of Detroit’s most notorious criminals also one of the FBI’s most valuable informants?

Two days in crisis.

How a con man named James McCormick sold $38 million worth of phony bomb-detection devices to Iraqi authorities.

What does satire do? What should we expect of it? Is it crucial to Western culture that we be free to produce it?

A profile of Laura Poitras.

Some passions are more dangerous than others.

A talented young chef loses control.

Woodward and Bernstein’s other anonymous sources.

How a journeyman actor became a star.

“American politics has often been an arena for angry minds.”

Gulfport police killed a Black veteran. His family waits for answers.

White sharks are hunting along Cape Cod’s beaches. What will it take to keep people safe?

The $200 billion industry behind the Snuggie.

How precious maps, books, and art vanished from the Pittsburgh archive over the course of 25 years.

“The dirty secret of American higher education is that student-loan interest rates are almost irrelevant. It’s not the cost of the loan that’s the problem, it’s the principal—the appallingly high tuition costs that have been soaring at two to three times the rate of inflation, an irrational upward trajectory eerily reminiscent of skyrocketing housing prices in the years before 2008.”