A cohort of journalists is drowning in burnout, trauma, and moral injury.

Jackie Thomas was $29,134 in debt and in trouble with state regulators. She hadn’t slept in days. If a judge ruled against her, she’d fail the mothers who could only keep their jobs thanks to the 24-hour child care she offered.

On India’s Covid catastrophe.

For decades, thousands of people came to Trinidad, Colorado, to have gender confirmation surgery done by Dr. Stanley Biber. This excerpt from Going To Trinidad tells his—and one of his patient’s—poignant stories.

New research is intensifying the debate — with profound implications for the future of the planet.

Sewage epidemiology has been embraced in other countries for decades, but not in America. Will Covid change that?

Hundreds of workers at a Tampa lead smelter have been exposed to dangerous levels of the neurotoxin. The consequences have been profound.

What lasting impact will the pandemic have on America’s first responders?

As one blockmate after another fell ill, we tried to stay safe and care for one another. It wasn’t always enough.

A year of isolation made me consider all the casual, unwanted touch women endure — and why it’s so hard to refuse it.

The pandemic brought the business opportunity of a lifetime to Puritan Medical Products of Guilford, Maine. But even a $250 million infusion from the U.S. government has done little to quell an epic family feud.

Hundreds of workers at a Tampa lead smelter have been exposed to dangerous levels of the neurotoxin. The consequences have been profound.

George Otto was a respected family physician with a bustling clinic in the northwest corner of the city. But he had a secret: after hours, he was running a booming fentanyl business.

Near America’s largest coal-fired power plant, toxins are showing up in drinking water and people have fallen ill. Thousands of pages of internal documents show how one giant energy company plans to avoid the cleanup costs for coal ash.

A writer reckons with his debts, both financial and personal.

A notoriously brutal industry is slowly building supports for its workers.

A dispatch from the pandemic under Governor Kristi Noem.

How did so many rich countries get it so wrong? How did others get it so right?

For years, employees of the Pierre enjoyed some of the most enviable union jobs in New York City. How much of that will survive the pandemic?

Before I learned about beauty, I delighted in my body. I sensed a deep well at my center, a kind of umbilical cord that linked me to a roiling infinity of knowledge and pathos that underlay the trivia of our daily lives.

In Hobbs, New Mexico, the high school closed and football was cancelled, while just across the state line in Texas, students seemed to be living nearly normal lives. Here’s how pandemic school closures exact their emotional toll on young people.

People with obsessive-compulsive disorder are often depicted as Type A clean freaks. The reality is much worse.

On illness, lockdown, marriage, and intimacy.

In a Plano bowling alley one night, Bill Fong came so close to perfection that it nearly killed him.

We stopped at a service station where there were old truck drivers, their vehicles festooned with red banners: “All-out war against the virus, weather hard times together.” The drivers wore their masks down around their chins as they smoked. I asked for water at the only open shop, and the assistant pulled his jacket up to cover his mouth before saying “over there.”