On motherhood, writing, and the death of a friend.

On the past, present, and future of gossip.

A profile of the rapper and activist.

The W.N.B.A. is putting on some of the best pro basketball in America.

In 1952, Abe Feller, the U.N.’s first General Counsel, jumped to his death. More than 50 years later, his great nephew tries to figure out why.

What has Ted Haggard, who left the New Life megachurch after admitting he purchased crystal meth and sexual favors from a male escort, been doing in the four years since? Selling insurance door to door and then… founding a new church and returning to the pulpit.

The Badger State is designed to keep Republicans in power, at the expense of the minority vote.

Adventures at a gathering of furries.

A profile of Erykah Badu.

A profile of MF Doom.

After nearly 15 years in a Peruvian prison, an American woman convicted of aiding a Marxist terrorist group finds parole in Lima full of contradictions.

As surely as 2008 was made possible by black people’s long fight to be publicly American, it was also made possible by those same Americans’ long fight to be publicly black. That latter fight belongs especially to one man, as does the sight of a first family bearing an African name. Barack Obama is the president. But it’s Malcolm X’s America.

LGBTQI groups found rare freedoms online, but this year, many were shut by censors. It feels like slowly being sanded down, said one member.

Behind the doors of Centaurus, Rio’s most infamous brothel.

On the business of Muzak.

On the decline of nature, and our wonder at it.

The story of freelance journalist Anna Therese Day.

Inside the world of bass fishing cheaters.

On the gentle art of pipe smoking.

On the scandal of our teeming prisons.

A profile of the director.

A profile of the filmmaker.

The timeless allure of looking through other peoples stuff.

A 2018 profile of the tennis star.

A profile of the actor, who died Monday.