What Does College Football Have to Do With College?
The question isn’t new. But seismic changes to college sports, embraced by Coach Deion Sanders and his University of Colorado Buffaloes, have made it more relevant than ever.
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How Janet Yellen Became an Unlikely Culinary Diplomat
The Treasury secretary views food as a way to connect, and her dining decisions have become the subject of global intrigue.
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Inside a Navy Submarine Navigating the Arctic
A Times photojournalist embarked on a nuclear-powered attack sub to see how the Pentagon is training for a potential war below the frozen sea.
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Inside a Navy Submarine Navigating the Arctic
A Times photojournalist embarked on a nuclear-powered attack sub to see how the Pentagon is training for a potential war below the frozen sea.
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This Man Turned the Worst Job in College Basketball Into a Slam Dunk
South Carolina Salkehatchie had no budget, players or running water in the locker room when Matt Lynch arrived. One season in, the first publicly gay head coach is figuring out how to win, on the court and off.
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How Rich Donors and Loose Rules Are Transforming College Sports
A shift that allows booster groups to employ student-athletes has upended the economics of college football and other sports while giving many donors a tax break.
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Who Runs the Best U.S. Schools? It May Be the Defense Department.
Schools for children of military members achieve results rarely seen in public education.
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Who Runs the Best U.S. Schools? It May Be the Defense Department.
Schools for children of military members achieve results rarely seen in public education.
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Scorching Hot in Phoenix: What it’s Like to Work in 115 Degrees
Phoenix is facing a double heat and housing crisis that is falling hardest on people who have to suffer the sun.
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Scorching Hot in Phoenix: What It’s Like to Work in 115 Degrees
Phoenix is facing a double heat and housing crisis that is falling hardest on people who have to suffer the sun.
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Homeless by Choice: How to Live for Free in America
More than a decade ago, Daniel Suelo closed his bank account and moved into a desert cave. Here's how he eats, sleeps, and evades the law.
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What If Certain Mental Disorders Are Not Disorders At All?
A new paper by anthropologists argues that disorders are responses to adversity.
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Trump Sows Doubt on Voting. It Keeps Some People Up at Night.
A group of worst-case scenario planners — mostly Democrats, but also some anti-Trump Republicans — have been gaming out how to respond to various doomsday options for the 2020 presidential election.
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Navy Reports Describe Encounters With Unexplained Flying Objects
While some of the encounters have been reported publicly before, the Navy records are an official accounting of the incidents, including descriptions from the pilots of what they saw.
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Where Have All the Christmas Tree Farms Gone?
Christmas tree farms have been closing down. A trip to Indiana, where many have vanished, revealed a variety of reasons. This is patient, solitary work.
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Farm Country Feeds America. But Just Try Buying Groceries There.
An exodus of grocery stores is turning rural towns into food deserts. But some are fighting back by opening their own local markets.
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How Trump Reshaped the Presidency in Over 11,000 Tweets
The president’s tweeting was once a sideshow. But it transformed how he exerted power, leaving the White House and Twitter to grapple over whether, and how, to rein it in.
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In Coal Country, the Mines Shut Down, the Women Went to Work and the World Quietly Changed
From 2010 to 2017, Letcher County in Kentucky saw a greater shift in the gender balance of its labor force than almost any other county in the United States.
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What’s the Upside of Feeling Insecure?
Ironically, accepting your insecurities is generally to your advantage.
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Reefer Madness or Pot Paradise? The Surprising Legacy of the Place Where Legal Weed Began
Colorado’s first-in-the-nation experiment with legalized marijuana has infused the drug into almost every corner of life.
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Stacey Abrams, Star Trek Nerd, Is Traveling at Warp Speed
She nearly became Georgia’s governor. She might run for senator or president. But she’d probably trade it all for the bridge on the Enterprise.
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Washington’s Strong Economy, Financed by Taxpayers, Takes Hit From Shutdown
As the country nears the end of its third week of a government shutdown, the nation’s capital has borne the brunt of its consequences.
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When Trump Phones Friends, the Chinese and the Russians Listen and Learn
President Trump has been repeatedly told by aides that his cellphone calls are not secure from foreign spies. But he has refused to heed the warnings to stop talking.
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Read Senator John McCain’s Farewell Statement
His former campaign manager, Rick Davis, read a farewell statement on behalf of Mr. McCain, who passed away at the age of 81.
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Indian Slavery Once Thrived in New Mexico. Latinos Are Finding Family Ties to It.
The revelations have not only prompted personal reckonings but also fueled a larger debate on Hispanic and Native American identity.
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A single high school in India has produced the CEOs of Microsoft, Adobe, and Mastercard
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella went to Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet, a private school in southern India. So did the CEOs of Adobe and Mastercard.
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Diaphragmatic Breathing Exercises and Your Vagus Nerve
Vagus Nerve Survival Guide: Phase One (This entry is first in a 9 part series.)
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Meth, the Forgotten Killer, Is Back. And It’s Everywhere.
The fight against methamphetamines was successful, but only to a point. In some states it’s now the leading cause of drug-related deaths.
