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The Sunday Read: ‘How Analytics Marginalized Baseball’s Superstar Pitchers’

The Old Leatherman, a sort of real-life Northeastern Sasquatch, gave me an excuse to step outside my own life.

Many owners think so, thanks to the “talking buttons” craze on TikTok and Instagram. Scientists are less convinced.

The dream of Próspera, founded by a U.S. corporation off the coast of Honduras, was to escape government control. The Honduran government wants it gone.

You know so much more about yourself and your desires when you’re older that dating apps — even with all their frustrations — can bring unanticipated pleasure.

Cindy Elgan has overseen elections in rural Nevada without incident for 20 years, but now even her neighbors wonder if she’s part of “the deep state cabal.”

How the Criterion Collection became the film world’s arbiter of taste.

Over six terrible months, professors and administrators at Worcester Polytechnic Institute took on the unofficial role of counselors during a spate of campus suicides.

How exactly did dogs take over our world? This writer journeys into the bespoke pet care industry to find out.

Decades after the unexplained deaths of two American climbers in Argentina, a camera belonging to one of them was found in the snow.

In one small Mexican city, journalists who tried to expose cartel violence and government corruption became swept up in the murders devouring the country.

Many Chinese writers are looking for ways to capture the everyday realities that the government keeps hidden — sometimes at their own peril.

We still don’t know how the pandemic started. Here’s what we do know — and why it matters.

For years, Spanish society has been rocked by revelations from the secret tapes of José Manuel Villarejo Pérez, a former intelligence agent now facing prison. He told our reporter his story.

What’s the best way for a not particularly athletic barista-slash-wrestling geek to go pro? Act really weird.

Some Brazilian scientists fear that the Amazon may become a grassy savanna — with profound effects on the climate worldwide.

How the country’s vast rail system has helped it withstand an invasion.

Most social services come through the schools — but it can be impossible to get to them.

Thousands of Spanish children were taken from hospitals and sold to wealthy Catholic families. This is Ana Belén Pintado’s story.

What I’ve learned from a lifetime of voyaging with animals.