“Daniel, who doesn’t want to use his real name because he’s on active duty, is one of at least 200 military handlers whose dogs were secretly dumped out to civilians by K2 Solutions in February 2014, a Post investigation has found.” By Maureen Callahan.

For all the revelations about its brutality, pro football is more popular and profitable than ever. How the N.F.L. commissioner and a group of billionaire owners have kept the league on offense. By Mark Leibovich.

A new documentary, “No Más Bebés,” examines a California hospital’s sterilizations of Mexican-American women in the early 1970s — and the women who filed suit in response. By Marcela Valdes.

The state said a 19-year-old with an intellectual disability wasn’t equipped to look after her baby and whisked the newborn off to another family just after birth—a decision the mother was ready to fight. But how smart do you have to be to raise a child? By Lisa Miller.

The genetic discrimination future is here.

In November 2014, Akai Gurley was shot and killed by a rookie police officer in the stairwell of a Brooklyn housing project. As the officer's trial begins, Gurley’s family and friends tell the definitive story of the man they lost. By Alex Ronan.

Young people need to learn how to discuss, negotiate and articulate their own sexual desires and boundaries, and to respect those of others.

A congressionally-mandated initiative to overhaul U.S. interrogation strategy is bringing to light the frustrations -- and fragility -- of Obama's post-torture legacy. By Ali Watkins.

A conversation with ecofeminist Lori Gruen by Dayton Martindale.

Everyone has at least a few non-negotiable values. These are the things that, no matter what the circumstance, you'd never compromise for any reason...

A radical new approach to generating human organs is to grow them inside pigs or sheep. By Antonio Regalado.

This year, a Chinese company plans to open a massive factory to clone 100,000 cows. Just how far will this mass reproductive technology go? By Abby Haglage.

There's a jerk in every room. Is it you?

When a woman last year confessed that she would not know what to do if her fetus were diagnosed with Down’s syndrome, Richard Dawkins promptly replied: "Abort it and try again. It would be immoral to bring it into the world if you have the choice..." By Vidar Halgunset. (Dec. 7)

“The people who made Secret Hitler advertise it as a playable psychological model of how totalitarianism takes root. Their sales pitch also reassures that the game ‘doesn’t model the specifics of German parliamentary politics.’ Which makes sense: just as all art must draw some line around reality, so did Secret Hitler’s designers pick and choose from the horrific totality of actual-Hitler’s work, isolating just the right parts to weave into their party game.” By Rob Dubbin.

Recently, scientists have found evidence that these a lot of the plants all around us behave more like creatures rather than inanimate objects. Once considered to be at the bottom of the food chain, plants are slowly rising to the status of a legitimate living thing.

On the origins of corporate evil—and idiocy. By Jerry Useem.

An historic climate-change agreement, new views of the solar system, cybersecurity shortcomings and the discovery of a new human species—these and other events highlight the year in science and technology as selected by SA’s editors.

“Marineland denies the allegations made in this podcast...” By Jesse Brown.

The head of a Chinese firm that is building the world's biggest animal cloning factory has vowed not to use the technology on people.