Making Things Right

My dad and I never really connected. Now that doctors told him he had just months to live, would we ever?

Goodwill Greeting

I was losing my vision. Was I also losing my hope?

Grandma Camp

I did it for the grandkids every year. And every year I felt as if I had to outdo myself

A Better Man

He'd already served four years in juvenile corrections. Then at 20, he landed back behind bars, this time in state prison. Was there any hope for him?

Grateful in All Things

The answer came like a breeze brushing my cheek

Beyond My Control

The pilot’s voice was completely calm. But his words terrified me: “I need you all in the crash position”

Cat Power

I knew that my daughter would bond with these kittens they had the same condition she did. But I never imagined how they would change our lives

A New Day

I used to talk on the phone with my mom every day over coffee. Mornings just didn't feel right without her

FAST LEARNER

Hunter Greene has thrown 100 mph since he was a teenager. Last year, by learning to really pitch, he fulfilled his potential as the Reds' ace.

SPEED THRILLS

Once unthinkable, eye-popping pitching velocity has become the norm

FAST COMPANY

Tennessee has produced its share of hard-throwers. Enter Liam Doyle and 'the best fastball in the country.'

LAYING A FOUNDATION

How Kansas used junior college transfers to build a top 25 program

WORLD FARE

Which MLB organizations are signing the most international prospects?

SPEED KING

The incredible Aroldis Chapman stands alone for pure velocity and durability

HEAT WAVE

Elite fastball velocity puts the Mets' Raimon Gomez on a fast track

From Phenom To The Farm

FORMER BALLPLAYERS REFLECT ON PRO SUCCESS AND FAILURE

LEFT TURN

Up to 100 mph, Jack Bauer enters rare velocity range for prep lefthanders

WE'RE ALL LIVING IN A CARL HIAASEN NOVEL

In the mangroves with Florida's poet of excess and grift

Lost at Sea

ON MY FIRST TIME OUT AS A COMMERCIAL FISHERMAN, MY SHIP SANK, MY CAPTAIN DIED, AND I WAS LEFT ADRIFT AND ALONE IN THE PACIFIC.

HOW THE CHICKEN SANDWICH CONQUERED AMERICA

The sun is setting on burger dominance.

MAIL BY MULE

Neither snow nor rain nor 2,000-foot cliffs can stop them.

IS IAN STILL IN THERE?

People in a vegetative state may be far more conscious than was once thought.

From Hollywood to Hitler

In a new novel, Daniel Kehlmann asks why the director G. W. Pabst worked with the Nazis.

THAT '70s FEELING

Trump's tariffs could cause stagflation for the first time in decades. It may go on for a long, long time.

Donald Trump Enjoying Is This

The president explains how he plans to change America forever.

THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED

Is popular culture really in terminal decline?

The Not at All Funny Life of Mark Twain

Ron Chernow's biography dwells more on the wreck of a man than on his sublimely comic work.

Return of the Shaman

How visionary healers became a fixture of contemporary American culture and politics

When Buckley Met Baldwin

In 1965, the two intellectual giants squared off in a debate at Cambridge. It didn't go quite as Buckley hoped.

The Secret to Happiness

Alison Bechdel has spent a lifetime worrying. In a new graphic novel, she finds something like solace.