Matthew Remski investigates decades of abuse at Shambhala International.

“Has a desire to keep the coronavirus out of schools put children’s long-term well-being at stake?”

Two students from China, studying at the University of Michigan, travel to Florida during their winter break and find themselves in trouble after entering the Naval Air Station Key West, a major U.S. military facility.

“To women in search of love, Shaun Rootenberg seemed like a catch. What they didn’t know: he’d spent decades stealing from just about anyone who crossed his path. Lonely women on dating sites were only his latest prey.”

“By mid-August, preorders of COVID-19 vaccine candidates were reportedly stretching toward 6 billion doses, almost all of them claimed by wealthy nations. None of these vaccines has yet been proven to work.”

Storm chasing tours are more popular than ever — Linda Logan sets out to find out why — while chasing a tornado.

A dive into the contentious and messy world of diagnosing dyslexia.

“The work the artist made near the end of his life changed my understanding of both beauty and suffering.”

“In Gujarat, India, a special breed of camel is not constrained by land—but it cannot escape the many forces of change.”

“There was no obvious way to placate liberal employees and conservative users at the same time.” Casey Newton reports on the dynamics inside Facebook and shares a series of leaked audio recordings from internal meetings this summer.

Across the country, 13,238 Americans were born on September 11, 2001, and — come November — they will get to vote in a presidential election for the first time. For Politico, Garrett M. Graff interviewed these young adults about their views on 9/11, school shootings, the pandemic, Black Lives Matter protests, and the political and social landscape in the U.S.

The story of how, after years of difficulty, George finally found his family.

“If the vote is close, Donald Trump could easily throw the election into chaos and subvert the result. Who will stop him?”

Doctors make mistakes. The true cause of a person’s death is often complicated and unclear. “Why you should get an autopsy if it’s the last thing you do.”

“Two new books reveal the meaning latent in the junk we collect.”

“Find a job, lose the job, go to jail: Guardian reporter Mario Koran found himself in a dangerous cycle. But behind bars, he discovered a new purpose.”

“Mike Postle was on an epic winning streak at a California casino. Veronica Brill thought he had to be playing dirty. Let the chips fall where they may.”

“Two years ago, Latria Graham wrote an essay about the challenges of being Black in the outdoors. Countless readers reached out to her, asking for advice on how to stay safe in places where nonwhite people aren’t always welcome. She didn’t write back, because she had no idea what to say. In the aftermath of a revolutionary spring and summer, she responds.”

Audre Lorde “recognized that there would never be a perfect time to speak up because ‘while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.'”