How the foreclosure crisis ignited a new form of activism in Chicago’s vacant homes.

Memories of living with the writer Andrew Lytle late in his life.

On working in a war zone to pay the bills.

When the best three months of your life are “called three of the uglier months in the recent history of the National Football League.”

A father’s life, one year after the death of his three daughters in a fire.

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

How the government cleared the streets in advance of the 1988 Olympics.

The story of Deso Dogg, a German rapper-turned-ISIS propagandist who may or may not have been killed in an airstrike.

Colossal corruption. Political chaos. The worst recession in its history. How a once-booming nation fell.

A decade in the life of America’s wiliest coyote.

How Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger and his Airbus A320 landed safely in the Hudson.

The story of an 86-year-old Norwegian man who tired to circumnavigate the globe, solo, in an engineless sailboat he built himself.

Five cars (all bought with $3,000 or less) containing 13 men (some in costume) race from New York City to California.

The Southern Baptist church, which has its origins in a split over slavery, at an election-year crossroads.

He stole over $1 million in chips – then checked himself into casino’s hotel to live like a king.

On the shootings, and the response, in Baton Rouge, Falcon Heights, and Dallas this summer.

A palliative-care doctor and triple amputee has built a new kind of hospice in San Francisco.

A father and his 9-year-old daughter watch Harvard play Yale in football.

Fast cars and bad decisions in a race through Southern Europe known as the “Gumball 3000.”

“In 1981, with a computer built into my shoe, I walked into a Las Vegas casino and beat the house.”

An animal's corpse disrupts a humdrum workday in this early story by Eleanor Catton, the winner of this year's Man Booker Prize.

A profile of former Rutgers basketball coach Mike Rice, who was fired in April after a video of him berating players went viral.

The gospel according to nine-year-olds; a missionary group that won the right to evangelize in schools and how children process their message.

An interview with a Mexican-born American attorney who defended and eventually smuggled for the cartels in the ’90s.

How the Syrian president stays in power.