Emotionally Devastating

The daughter of Caroline Kennedy writes about receiving a terminal diagnosis following the birth of her daughter, and watching Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., cut funding for the health-care system she relies on.

One federal worker was rejected three times from the administration’s early resignation offer. Would he blame the president he voted for?

Grief, conspiracy theories, and one family’s search for meaning in the two decades since 9/11

Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.

I thought my mother was an only child. I was wrong.

On June 4, 1989, the bodies of Jo, Michelle and Christe Rogers were found floating in Tampa Bay.

An autopsy ruled that Phoebe Jonchuck drowned. But that doesn’t explain why she died.

How do you live after unintentionally causing a death?

The crime-scene investigators are the ones who document, and remember, the unimaginable. This is what they saw at Sandy Hook.

After the shooting and the politics, the Barden family suffers all that’s been lost since the day their son died.

On July 4, the Guadalupe ripped our home from its pillars, pulling my family into its waters and into the night. Then morning came.

Inside the effort to pull minors from ‘the Blade,’ one of the most notorious sex-trafficking corridors in the United States.

Why did a mother with no backcountry experience take her sister and 13-year-old son to live off the grid on a 10,000-foot mountain during a Colorado winter?

Matt Badger believes that what happened happened for a reason. That his children were born in order to live in order to die the way they did, that out of it something meaningful must come. If at any point it becomes clear to him that he is wron […]

One year ago, a heavily armed man dressed as a police officer appeared on the beach of a youth summer camp in Utøya, Norway. The kids had no way of knowing he was targeting them for the ills of Europe. Then he started shooting. And shooting. As told by the survivors, these are the beat-by-beat horrors of those terrifying 198 minutes

His wife was just thirty-four. They had two little girls. The cancer was everywhere, and the parts of dying that nobody talks about were about to start. His best friend came to help out for a couple weeks. And he never left.

A young mother rents a house near Milwaukee. The previous tenant tells her, “Baby, they shouldn’t have let you move in.”

Two young men, 20 and 18, facing north. Two straight lanes, clear and flat, inviting them into a very dark place.

Thirty-five years ago Dallas—and the country—was gripped by the tragic story of John McClamrock, a high school football player paralyzed during a violent tackle. But after the newspapers moved on, another story was quietly unfolding, one of courage, perseverance, and a mother’s fierce love.

Eren Orbey on Patrick Clancy navigating life after his wife, Lindsay, killed their children during a postpartum mental-health crisis.