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When My Crazy Father Actually Lost His Mind

And what it took to get him the help he needed.

The Autism Advantage

Thorkil Sonne is betting that, given the right environment, an autistic adult could not just hold down a job but also be the best person for it.

Friends of a Certain Age

The period for making B.F.F.’s, the way you did in your teens or early 20s, is pretty much over. It’s time to resign yourself to situational adult friends.

How Target Knows Your Secrets

Your shopping habits reveal even the most personal information — like when you’re going to have a baby.

What's a Monkey to Do in Tampa?

A lone rhesus macaque, running loose in the streets of the Republican convention host city, has become a wildly popular, if elusive, public figure.

How Slavery Really Ended in America

The forgotten story of three “contrabands,” a pragmatic general and a shrug that made history.

My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant

A reporter talks about his illegal American dream.

The Fracturing of Pennsylvania

In Amwell Township, Pa., the dividing line is between those who are getting rich and those who are paying the price.

You Blow My Mind. Hey, Mickey!

A journey to the flip side of Disney.

What if the Secret to Success Is Failure?

Why our children’s success — and happiness — may depend less on perfect performance than on learning how to deal with failure.

Is Sugar Toxic?

That it makes us fat is something we take for granted. That it might also be making us sick is harder to accept.

Liking Is for Cowards

Our infatuation with technology encourages shallow self-reflection, and liking, rather than the harder work of loving.

Can Animals Be Gay?

The science of same-sex pairings in the wild.

Israel Without Clichés

Six reasons that the Middle East debate is frozen in place.

Building a Better Teacher

There are more than three million teachers in the United States, and Doug Lemov is trying to prove that he can teach them to be better.

Class Dismissed

Why not eliminate the self-indulgent, debauched waste that is the senior year of high school?

What Is It About 20-Somethings?

They move back in with their parents. They delay beginning careers. Why are so many young people taking so long to grow up?

A Physicist Solves the City

What makes a city grow and thrive? What causes it to stagnate and fall? Geoffrey West thinks the tools of physics can give us the answers.

My Endless New York

Finding a home in a city that belongs to the world as much as it belongs to America.

The Data-Driven Life

What happens when technology can analyze every quotidian thing that happened to you today.