In 1975, Jackie O., widow to a president and tycoon, decided to become a literary editor.

In the midst of a national crisis, mothers addicted to drugs struggle to get off them — for their babies’ sake, and their own.

The author spent a day with three men in a high-end security detail to find out how it feels to be safe.

There are many explanations for the rise in killings in U.S. cities, including the pandemic and the choices made in response to it. In Philadelphia, the causes, the human costs — and the suffering — are particularly stark.

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 vegan sets out to see if there’s an ethical, sustainable way to eat fish in 2015.

A feat of elegant design wowed elite architects and promised to bring education to poor children in Nigeria. Then it collapsed.

In 2015, my friend and I went to Disney World. Three years later, she went on a solo trip to prison.

A visit to a colonial debutante ball in Texas, where girls wear hundred-pound dresses and pretend to be Martha Washington.

She wanted to ride with men in one of the world’s most dangerous sports. She had a lot more than her competition to be worried about.

The Texas Department of Transportation intends to spend $25 billion widening highways to fix traffic in Texas cities. What if we tore them down instead?

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.

The story of Héctor Espino, the greatest hitter never to play in the majors.