An annotated transcript:

MR. SEALE: [The marshals are carrying him through the door to the lockup.] I still want an immediate trial. You can’t call it a mistrial. I’m put in jail for four years for nothing? I want my coat.

The Tarahumara became famous for running incredibly long distances. In recent years, cartels have exploited their talents by forcing them to ferry drugs into America. Now they’re running for their lives.

The former NHL tough guy tells his story of head trauma, depression, and his search for peace.

I don’t want to die. But, you know, nothing is for certain. And I’m tired of keeping quiet.

Antonio Carrion was headed for the NFL when the voices started and he drifted away. Then his estranged mother finished her time for robbery and saved him from a system that’s unkind to the mentally ill.

An oral history of the disaster:

Someone said to me, or maybe I read it, that the problem of Chernobyl presents itself first of all as a problem of self understanding. That seemed right. I keep waiting for someone intelligent to explain it to me.

The Darién Gap is a lawless wilderness on the border of Colombia and Panama teeming with everything from deadly snakes to antigovernment guerrillas. For many migrants, crossing it is their only way to get to America.

Afternoons with Altman and Allen.

For a year or two during the mid-1970s, living in New York, I was a moviegoer. I was in my early 20s then, working off and on, driving a cab, setting up the stage at rock shows, writing occasional pieces for The Village Voice. But there were also long empty spells. I tried to write some fiction and couldn’t, tried to read and could—but only for so long. I ended up going to the movies.

Y.A. Tittle, an 87-year-old Hall of Fame quarterback with dementia, travels to his hometown for the last time.

Kim Goodsell had a pair of rare diseases. Doctors didn’t have the time to look for a link. So she taught herself genetics and found it herself.

A small New Jersey town is world-famous among Orthodox Jews as a place to come ask for handouts.

The case for why a cup of joe is about to become a luxury item.

How prison changed the mother and militant who was sentenced to 75 years for her role in a deadly 1981 Brinks truck heist.

A profile of the singer as he returns to the stage for the first time in a dozen years.

Immune systems don’t make for clean narratives, even as we expect them to keep us pure.

We are all going to die. So what does it look like?

Can a company best known for explaining Kanye West lyrics and telling Warren Buffett to do unseemly things actually annotate the world?

The dilemma of providing quality health care for undocumented immigrants, and how one city is attempting to solve it.

Two floors of a building in prime Brooklyn for $1000 a month seemed too good to be true. It was.

The long legal saga of Kerry Max Cook, who for almost 40 years fought to clear his name after being convicted of murder.

For decades, “abnormal” embryos were thrown away during the IVF process. Then some pioneering doctors — and patients — decided to use them anyway.

A 5-part series on how drug lords make billions smuggling gold to the U.S. for your jewelry and phones.

Forty-eight years after being attacked, a St. Petersburg, Florida woman searches for a way to cope.

He was a far-right, pro-Trump media figure looking for his big break. Then Lane Davis stabbed his father to death.