George Floyd’s murder is a brutal reminder that the entire legal edifice—from slavery to mass incarceration—was designed to break down black people meticulously. This isn’t accidental.

But for heaven’s sake, the best-selling author, unapologetic cusser, and fifth-generation Texan would rather not be called that.

The resilience of Marga Griesbach, 92, who made it through the Holocaust, and set off for a cruise around the world in February.

On homelessness in San Francisco.

More than 40 years ago, pioneering author Jim Fixx’s best-selling book brought jogging to the masses, espousing its physical and emotional benefits. Now, those themes resonate more than ever with a homebound society.

Black patients were losing limbs at triple the rate of others. The doctor put up billboards in the Mississippi Delta. Amputation Prevention Institute, they read. He could save their limbs, if it wasn’t too late.

A mysterious outbreak. Hundreds of stricken schoolgirls. Was it an illness, or was something darker to blame?

A preview from Georgia about how America might reemerge from the coronavirus.

On hometowns.

On the public-health risks of the American prison system.

A cross section of Angelenos consider ‘What’s next?’

A profile of the contrarian French scientist Didier Raoult, who proposed an anti-malarial drug as a COVID cure.

Health-care workers have been on the job throughout the pandemic. What can they teach us about the safest way to lift a lockdown?

On eating and coping mechanisms, childhood and self-control, criticism, love, cancer, and pandemics.

Exploring your subconscious during quarantine.

At the start of the coronavirus outbreak, one ill-fated cruise ship became a symbol for the panic and confusion that would soon engulf the globe. What two harrowing weeks trapped aboard the ocean liner felt like—for unsuspecting tourists, for frightened crew members, and for the captain himself.

On long-distance grief.

A viral video in which Dr. Annie Bukacek questions the severity of COVID-19 has given anti-lockdown activists across the country a sense of validation.

Federal agencies have hired contractors with no experience to find respirators and masks, fueling a black market filled with price gouging and multiple layers of profiteering brokers. One contractor called them “buccaneers and pirates.”

For the Zulu club, a black social organization in New Orleans, Mardi Gras was a joy. The coronavirus made it a tragedy.

The first epicenter is coming back to life, but not as anyone knew it.

The initial coronavirus outbreaks on the East and West Coasts emerged at roughly the same time. But the danger was communicated very differently.

A front-line physician at Elmhurst Hospital sees how closely socioeconomic status is tied to the disease, and tries to help patients who are dying without their families.

The long struggle for workers’ rights at poultry plants is now more urgent than ever

Carnival Cruise executives knew they had a virus problem, but kept the party going.