Jacob Stern
Can a Boxer Return to the Ring After Killing?
In 2019, Charles Conwell unintentionally ended Patrick Day’s life with his fists. Now he’s trying to make sense of his life, and boxing itself.
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Koya79/ Getty / Paul Spella / The Atlantic Is the FaceTime Haircut Here to Stay?
Out-of-work hairstylists, acupuncturists, and even plumbers are seeing clients online. The transition hasn’t always been easy.
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Gregg Vigliotti / The New York Times The Social-Distance Vigilantes in a Massachusetts Senior Home
Residents are asking their neighbors to tell on one another.
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David Becker / Stringer / Getty ‘Storm Area 51’ Could Be a Disaster for Lincoln County
The Facebook event may have started in jest, but local officials are bracing for mayhem.
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NASA Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Is Behaving Strangely
For a time, it looked as though the planet’s defining feature might be on the verge of extinction.
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NASA One Small Controversy About Neil Armstrong’s Giant Leap
When, exactly, did the astronaut set foot on the moon? No one knows.
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Tim Clayton / Corbis / Getty The Stubborn Culture of Harassment in America’s Medical Schools
A Yale cardiologist accused of sexual misconduct received one of the university’s highest honors, and the aftermath has revealed how much power men still have in academic medicine.
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Damian Dovarganes / AP Tracking Down a Catastrophic Fire’s First Spark
The investigation into a wildfire’s source is crucial to avoiding future disasters.
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Jacob Stern Yale Law School’s Reckoning Over Brett Kavanaugh
Students and faculty staged a sit-in Monday in protest against President Trump’s nomination of the conservative appellate-court judge, a 1990 Yale Law graduate, to the Supreme Court.
