A flight attendant's love affair.

Throughout 2015 and 2016, amid a series of conversations I had socially with gay and bisexual men about chemsex, new, darker elements to this scene began to emerge; details from unconnected participants that mirrored each other – the same incidents, the same crimes, sometimes even the same culprits. Together they formed a picture: that beneath the surface reports about chemsex – the endless hedonism, the irresistibly intense sex – there is a much blacker sea, unmapped.

An interview with Steve Albini on art, commerce, and ethic.

A crash course in Tantra and superficial spirituality.

Lee Berger is unquestionably a paleoanthropologist. But is he a visionary or a hype artist?

On Ryan Coogler’s film.

Two days in crisis.

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

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

The poet died when he was hit by a car in 1965. Everything else about his demise is a mystery.

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.”

On what you come to appreciate after a short apprenticeship with paramedics.

“Who we become has so much to do with the experiences we had, and how we survived.”

A law-enforcement official released the documents after finding that additional suspicious transactions did not appear in a government database.

On returning to Britain, which is no longer home.

They’re floppy, relaxed, and they come when you call them. Is the Ragdoll a genetic miracle, or just one very cool cat?

Computer programming once had much better gender balance than it does today. What went wrong?

Young immigrants who have been separated from their parents find a home at the Children’s Center.

A Swiss chateau. A Broadway musical all about her. And absolutely nothing she has to do.

Cycling through relapse and recovery, and the industry that enables both.

“I always said that when my time came I’d want to go fast. But where’s the fun in that?”

What’s a typical immigrant story? In his new film, “Minari,” the “Walking Dead” star has his own to tell.