Maggie Jones

In his new book, ‘Us’, Terrence Real explores how ‘enlightened self interest’ could save your relationship.

Sex can drop off in our final decades. But for those who keep going, it can be the best of their lives.

A radical lesbian feminist, she helped build a haven without men in the California redwoods.

Hannah Drake’s (Un)Known Project in Louisville is both a memorial to enslaved people whose stories will never be uncovered, and a challenge to unearth narratives hidden in attics and archives.

When she was 17, she leapt into a segregated Florida swimming pool — and landed on the front page.

Overwhelmed by bodies, funeral homes are struggling to fulfill their mission to grieving families.

She was arrested dozens of times, and Klan members threw Molotov cocktails into her yard — but that didn’t stop her fight for civil rights.

Home-funeral guides believe that families can benefit from tending to — and spending time with — the bodies of their deceased.

From deep in the archives, she brought justice for Japanese-Americans.

She transcended a strict upbringing and embraced her eroticism in her 60s.

Investigating why American women did — and did not — breast-feed.

Remembering Muhammad Ali, Gwen Ifill, David Bowie, Natalie Cole and more of those we lost in the past year.

In the face of death threats, a forensic anthropologist has spent two decades exhuming the victims of a “dirty” civil war. Now his work might help bring justice for their murders.

A movement is raising soul-searching questions about international adoption.

The child prodigy took her genius not to academia but to the stage.

First it was Russians and Ukrainians. Then Mexicans, Guatemalans and Somalis. Oh, and very briefly, Palauans. Who will save this town next?

What happens when college students without papers reveal their status in public and put themselves on the line?

She has been stripped of her Olympic medals. She has been jailed. Now she is trying to become the W.N.B.A.’s oldest rookie.

At the SEED School, the assumption is that inner-city students will learn more if they spend the school week living away from home. But can you leave the neighborhood behind?

She ferried babies and children out of the Warsaw ghetto.