CATEGORIES

THE MOZART EFFECT

The composer in his time, and ours.

SUCCESSION

Dynasty as the engine of human history.

THE SOCCER BALLS OF Mr. KURZ

For Bragonzi, the only beautiful thing in the sad life of the boarding school in Quarto dei Mille was the soccer matches. And yet even that beauty was anguished.

LETTER FROM UKRAINE UNDERWORLD

The unrelenting horrors faced by infantrymen on the Zero Line.

THE CONTROL OF NATURE ROOT AND BRANCH

What we owe our trees.

PARTICIPATION TROPHY

SHOUTS & MURMURS

ANNALS OF GASTRONOMY AMERICAN FLAVOR

A television host puts Black cuisine at the center of the nation’s history.

Fractured Land

The earthquakes authoritarianism in Turkey highlighted the corruption and of President Erdoğan. Can he be defeated?

Behind the Lens

The making of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy

DRAMA QUEEN

The \"Bridgerton\" prequel series \"Queen Charlotte,\" on Netflix

RECKLESS DISREGARD

Do our media-friendly defamation rules hurt our democracy?

DRIVEN AROUND THE BEND

The real cost of our cars

HUNTING THE HUNTERS

A conservation N.G.O. infiltrates wildlife-trafficking rings to bring them down

THE BLING KING

Philipp Plein's maximalist designs

TRANSLATION

I grew up multilingual and learned in earliest childhood to switch effortlessly between languages

THE REVOLVING DOOR

What a subway killing reveals about mental illness and homelessness

GET THE MESSAGE

\"BlackBerry\" and \"Chile '76.\"

CAVE ART

The Louisville Orchestra goes underground with Yo-Yo Ma.

CLICK-WITTED

Ben Smith's adventures in Web traffic.

THE VOICE

Martin Luther King, Jr., and the perilous power of respectability.

THE PLANNED PARENTHOOD PROBLEM

Is the group too cautious and corporate, forcing independent abortion providers to take the biggest risks?

GUT FEELINGS

The filmmakers trying to capture experience—from inside the body.

IS NOT DRINKING A PROBLEM FOR YOU?

A week ago, I never would’ve told you that I had a problem with not drinking. I wasn’t one of those people who got messy, cracking open another LaCroix and failing to hide their burps behind a hand. My sobriety had never caused me to commit a social faux pas, like asking friends if I could contribute less to a bill since I’d ordered only a mint tea.

THE GHOSTWRITER

Prince Harry's collaborator on life in the margins.

EARLY BLOOMER

Georgia O’Keeffe before she was famous

HOME FIRES

Why the flames kindled at Waco are still burning

THE MAN IN THE ROOM

Paul Schrader’s new film, “Master Gardener,” completes a trilogy. But he wants to make one more

THE FUGITIVE PRINCESSES

Fleeing a life of privilege and brutality in Dubai

SAD DADS

How the National captures the unmagnificent lives of adults

MAKING OF

After receiving backlash for its partnership with trans actor and social media star Dylan Mulvaney, Budweiser has released a new patriotic ad featuring its signature Clydesdale horse mascot