Visiting a gargantuan shrine to democracy in 2017.

What it’s like to be too big in America.

How reading can lead to resilience in the most trying times.

In the aftermath of rape, a transition from prey to predator.

A gardener in Newark, NJ tries to grow the world’s best peppers.

How the compulsion to explore is coded in the human genome.

Money is an idea that we all agree to believe in.

In El Salvador, pregnant women have more to fear than Zika.

A voting rights march, from Selma to the statehouse in Montgomery, Alabama.

Searching for meaning at Baldwin’s soon-to-be-demolished home in France.

In Florida, sinker cypress harvesters have to dodge the law while working their trade.

Anesthesiologists, in hugely disproportionate numbers compared to other doctors, are getting high.

What happens to a subway operator after someone commits suicide by jumping in front of his train?

Returning to the scenes of three famous deaths in Seattle.

Life in Mexico immediately after being forced to leave the U.S.

In Minneapolis, a group of activists take over a Sheraton and open it to the homeless, banning police.

A Q&A:

My mother was called to school frequently because I was yelling out things in class, quips in class, and because I would hand in compositions that they thought were in poor taste, or too sexual. Many, many times she was called to school.

“When I first received this Nobel Prize for Literature, I got to wondering exactly how my songs related to literature. I wanted to reflect on it and see where the connection was. I’m going to try to articulate that to you. And most likely it will go in a roundabout way, but I hope what I say will be worthwhile and purposeful.”

The fight to grant asylum to the translators who worked—and sometimes fought—alongside U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

After his daughter died in a terrorist attack, Stephen Flatow won an unprecedented judgment against her killers. Then he had to figure out how to actually collect.

Ten stories on guns, ranging from competitive shooting, to girl gangs in Chicago, to the sisters and mothers of mass shooting victims.

“His goal is to stay in power another day, another year, and to deal with complications when—and if—they arise.”

Politicians want to rein in the retail giant. But Jeff Bezos, the master of cutthroat capitalism, is ready to fight back.

Renée Bach went to Uganda to save children—but many in her care died. Was she responsible?

While Covid-19 deaths in the United States skyrocket, Germans have managed to largely contain the damage. What do we need to learn?