“The foundation of Donald Trump’s presidency is the negation of Barack Obama’s legacy.”

A visit to the ‘Castle’ where self-driving cars learn.

“Seeing a partial eclipse bears the same relation to seeing a total eclipse as kissing a man does to marrying him.”

Last November, A.J. Delgado played a vital role in the presidential campaign. Then everything fell apart.

Emmanuel “Toto” Constant, the founder of a barbaric Haitian paramilitary group, vanished from Port-au-Prince and resurfaced as a real estate agent in Queens.

“There are no good options. But some are worse than others.”

On what happened in 2016 and what should happen next.

An American mystery writer and an Italian journalist join forces to identify a serial killer that targeted couples having sex in cars in the rolling hills above Florence.

In 1937, Harvard researchers began following the lives of 268 students. Year after year, the men were interviewed and given medical and psychological exams. The goal? Find a formula for happiness.

“She lived with us for 56 years. She raised me and my siblings without pay. I was 11, a typical American kid, before I realized who she was.”

“Richard Spencer is a troll and an icon for white supremacists. He was also my high-school classmate.”

“Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”

On how a childhood spent in New York City’s tenements led a 15-year-old boy to be convicted of murder.

In Arctic Siberia, Russian scientists are trying to stave off catastrophic climate change—by resurrecting an Ice Age biome complete with lab-grown woolly mammoths.

On the history of the essay and someone who had gotten it all wrong.

One story of coming to America from the Soviet Union.

Franklin Leonard’s anonymous survey has launched careers, recognized four of the past eight Best Picture winners, and pushed movie studios to think beyond sequels and action flicks.

A ragtag band of pirate-Jihadists grab Americans from a diving resort in the Phillipines and lead them on an odyssey through the jungles of an archipelago with the competing interests of the Phillipines’ Navy and Army, the U.S. Military, and the C.I.A. thwarting their rescue.

John Georgelas was a military brat and drug enthusiast from Texas. Now he’s a prominent figure within the Islamic State.

The little-understood history of the whales and how barnacles may be the key to understanding how giant mammals evolved underwater.

A history of the first African American White House—and of what came next.

'He collapsed on Granville Road, within 100 meters of the house he was renting for $20,000 a month. Police and medics were called to the scene, but within 30 minutes, Perepilichny was pronounced dead. Police told the press the death was “unexplained.” A 44-year-old man of average build and above-average wealth had simply fallen down and died in the leafy suburb he’d recently begun calling home.'

How modern slot machines develop a nearly unbreakable hold on the brain, leading around one in five pathological gamblers to attempt suicide.

The country has become repressive in a way that it has not been since the Cultural Revolution. What does its darkening political climate—and growing belligerence—mean for the United States?

In New York City, every 4-year-old has access to free early education—even those whose families make up the 1 percent.