Paige Williams

From the daily newsletter: what it takes to be a rescuer at the busiest national park in America.

In the Great Smoky Mountains, an auxiliary team of élite outdoorsmen answers the call when park-goers’ hikes, climbs, and rafting adventures go wrong.

The legendary N.F.L. coach promised to turn U.N.C. into a football powerhouse. What went wrong?

Can the legendary former Patriots coach transform U.N.C. football?

When a high-school teacher in Tennessee agreed to be prosecuted for teaching evolution, The New Yorker, still in its first year, sent a reporter.

How the “forever business” is changing at New York City’s biggest graveyard.

Can a company town that’s been called “the most miserable city in America” remake itself?

In the wake of the New Year’s attack, party-hard New Orleans staggers to its feet.

From the daily newsletter: The animal crisis in Lake Tahoe. Plus: the best jokes of 2024; the asymmetry of the abortion-rights movement; and Calvin Trillin on Yiddish, Litvaks, and the Evil Eye.

The vacation hot spot has been overrun by people—whose habits are drawing fast-moving animals with sharp claws and insatiable appetites.