Michael Phelps returns to his Olympic training after a 45-day stint at The Meadows.

How a celebrated American artist was forced to trade his multimillion-dollar collection for a job selling donuts.

It makes as much money as Whole Foods while stocking 90 percent fewer products. The Trader Joe’s business model explained.

Four years after a disastrous MTV performance had led him to avoid the public, Rose was back on stage.

Few Americans are as affected by climate change as Alaska’s Inupiat, or as dependent on the fossil-fuel economy.

When his father was murdered, Wasil Ahmad vowed revenge. He was 8 years old.

When a creature mysteriously turns up dead in Alaska, veterinary pathologist Kathy Burek gets the call.

During the 90s, David Bazan was Christian indie-rock’s first big crossover star. Then he stopped believing.

Even soldiers who fight wars from a safe distance have found themselves traumatized.

Inside Iraq’s most notorious prison, an Army interrogator named Joshua Casteel came fact to face with a truth about the war—and himself.

It was just a kayaking trip. Then it upended their lives.

For years, Mormon Mommy blogger Natalie Lovin curated a picture-perfect life. Then she left the church—and her husband.

The prison-industrial complex is not only a set of interest groups and institutions. It is also a state of mind. The lure of big money is corrupting the nation's criminal-justice system, replacing notions of public service with a drive for higher profits. The eagerness of elected officials to pass "tough-on-crime" legislation — combined with their unwillingness to disclose the true costs of these laws — has encouraged all sorts of financial improprieties. The inner workings of the prison-industrial complex can be observed in the state of New York, where the prison boom started, transforming the economy of an entire region; in Texas and Tennessee, where private prison companies have thrived; and in California, where the correctional trends of the past two decades have converged and reached extremes.

Steve Miller had a clear-cut legal case when the Geto Boys used his guitar-hook in their raunchy 1990 single “Gangster of Love.” The racial implications weren’t so simple.

Excerpted from The Geto Boys(Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 series, 2016) .

The afterlife of 486 frames of Kodachrome II 8mm film shot by Dallas clothing manufacturer Abraham Zapruder.

Why psychologists love “priming.”

Two days in crisis.

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

With prices spiralling, poachers are digging for ginseng in the North Carolina hills.

A former WikiLeaks employee on the motivations driving his old boss.

Susan Hawk was the first woman elected as Dallas County district attorney. She also suffers from depression.

Why The Undefeated, a site announced more than two years ago, still hasn’t launched.

An attempt to figure out how the Times columnist came to care more about personal morality than politics.

The Penn State sex abuse scandal as told through a father, a son and “Victim 1.”