In Kansas, girls didn’t have a wrestling championship. Mya Kretzer changed that.

Can his cerebral politics still galvanize voters in an age of extremes?

How acute childhood trauma infects and compromises relationships later in life.

What happens when humans, not algorithms, are in charge.

A hundred and fifty years ago, slightly more, a strange notion: the dead could be counted. In the Civil War, in the lush fields of the South, Americans first, as a culture, began to imagine death in numbers. Rosters of soldiers, as well as lists of war casualties, were not common practice in the mid-nineteenth century. Many officials feared responsibility for the dead by numbering or naming them, and military leaders felt an accurate count might embolden their enemies.

In 1992, thousands of furious, drunken cops descended on City Hall—and changed New York history.

In a sea of skeptics, this physician was one of fibromyalgia patients’ few true allies. Or was he?

In Oakland, California, when it comes to Black homelessness and dispossession, dystopia is already here.

A diagnosis in question.

A profile of a doctor fighting Ebola in Uganda.

An American journalist on being kidnapped, tortured and released in Syria.

The life’s work of Cosmo editor-in-chief Helen Gurley Brown.

A profile of Chan ‘Cat Power’ Marshall adrift in Miami.

The false promise and double standard of integration in the Obama era.

Becoming a priest in Boston amidst a sex abuse scandal and church closings.

Life after scoring 100-plus points in a basketball game.

How humans evolve in the modern world.

The bureaucratic hell of enforcing legislation in Washington.

The history and meaning of taxidermy in American museums.

“I never attacked anyone weak. Only bullies, secure in their courts, bureacracies, fifedoms.”

Covering an election in Peru’s largest prison.

In North Georgia, two men feud over a quarter-mile property line.

The economics of freelance journalism in 2013.

A personal history of class in America.

Renting in one of the most expensive American cities.