A medical revolution aims to stave off age-related disease and extend our lives — but what will it mean for society? By Brooke Borel.

“Between 1999 and 2001, I helped eight people die, including the poet Al Purdy. Now, as I prepare to take my own life, I’m ready to tell my story.” By John Hofsess.

A nurse gave an infant a fatal overdose of medication. Seven months later she killed herself. Could either death have been prevented? By Sarah Kliff.

To offer a diagnosis for someone we've never met - let alone offer treatment recommendations - is fraught both ethically and scientifically.

If Trump were in the fifth grade, he would have been kicked out of school long ago.

Was ‘Australi Witness’ a troll or a terrorist? By Jay Hathaway.

Neurological evidence that people feel less responsible for actions when taking orders. By Annalee Newitz,

A 1992 case about paper shredders may also shed some light on Tor privacy question. By Cyrus Farivar.

In late June, a gunman slipped into a beloved black church in Charleston, South Carolina, and massacred nine people who had met for Bible study. The slaughter of innocents in a house of worship garnered news coverage across the country, and reporters from the nation's most powerful media organizations began working... By Doyle Murphy.

Other parents might say they want their mediocre children to make the world a better place. But my girl is destined to do more than that, mostly for white people. By Kiese Laymon.

Five women suffered prolonged miscarriages, severe infections and emotional trauma at Mercy Health Partners when staff neglected patients’ health to uphold religious directives against inducing delivery, report reveals. By Molly Redden.

A Yale bioethicist says the United Nations won’t stop killer robots, but the United States could right now start setting a few rules limiting their development and use. By Patrick Tucker.

“Word choice is hard here. Should we say ‘raped’ automatically if a grown man has sex with a teenager? Does it matter at all if the 15-year-old, now much older, describes their encounter as one of the best nights of her life? What is our word for a ‘yes’ given on a plane that’s almost vertically unequal? Does contemporary morality dictate that we trust a young woman when she says she consented freely, or believe that she couldn’t have, no matter what she says?” By Jia Tolentino.

In the tree-strewn savannah of northern Tanzania, near the salty shores of Lake Eyasi, live some of the planet’s few remaining hunter-gatherers. Known as the Hadza, they live in Hadzaland, which stretches for about 4,000 square kilometers around the lake. No one is sure how long they’ve been there, but it could be since humans became human... By Cara Giaimo.

Former members of the U.S. drone program expose the hidden price of remote control combat. By Vegas Tenold.

Parents who reject vaccination are making a rational choice – they prefer to put their children above the public good. By Maggie Koerth-Baker.

Pope says avoiding pregnancy “is not an absolute evil.” By Sarah Pulliam Bailey and Michelle Boorstein.

Trudeau government criticizes Saudi regime for executions, but won’t stop supplying them with killing machines

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Former president says 2010 Citizens United court decision has corrupted US politics. By Matthew Weaver. (Feb. 3)