At Their Leisure Why Some Men Don’t Work: Video Games Have Gotten Really Good Young men are working less. Some economists think it’s because they’re home playing video games. By QUOCTRUNG BUI
Nonfiction Stories of a Lifelong Fascination With Africa In “Love, Africa,” Jeffrey Gettleman describes his enduring preoccupation with the continent and the career it has engendered. By NADIFA MOHAMED
Phillies 7, Mets 1 Momentum Deserts the Mets Amid Wave of Misplays Two bizarre plays and a lackluster pitching display left New York five games under .500 and nine games behind the first-place Washington Nationals in the N.L. East. By WALLACE MATTHEWS
Danielle Kang Wins Women’s P.G.A. Championship It was not only Kang’s first major victory, but her first L.P.G.A. Tour title. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
California’s Far North Deplores ‘Tyranny’ of the Urban Majority Rural residents in the state’s northern reaches say they are underrepresented and politically alienated by a system that doesn’t have their interests in mind. By THOMAS FULLER
Side Street For Two Veterans, a Freedom Restored for Independence Day Fred Downs and Artie McAuley, Army veterans who each lost an arm while serving, are the first recipients of new, state-of-the art prosthetic limbs. By DAVID GONZALEZ
Counseled by Industry, Not Staff, E.P.A. Chief Is Off to a Blazing Start Much of President Trump’s policy agenda is mired in delay, but Scott Pruitt has already achieved a major regulatory rollback. By CORAL DAVENPORT
Summer Reading Books: The Ties That Bind Colleges The Times collected information on dozens of college summer reading programs and examined an annual survey of hundreds of universities. A few trends emerged. By DANA GOLDSTEIN
For Gunman at Bronx Hospital, Fleeting Success and Persistent Strife Henry Bello graduated from medical school, but struggled with arrests, bankruptcies and homelessness before opening fire in the Bronx, killing one and wounding six others. By LISA W. FODERARO
For Millions, Life Without Medicaid Services Is No Option Supplemental benefits for millions of recipients, many of them disabled, would be at risk under Republican proposals to repeal the Affordable Care Act. By ABBY GOODNOUGH
Editorial Observer A Democracy Road Trip Through Hungary Beyond Budapest, and across generations, people are working to keep the illiberal forces of Viktor Orban at bay. By CAROL GIACOMO
Gray Matter Forgot Where You Parked? Good When we relearn something we couldn’t recall, we develop a richer form of understanding. By ULRICH BOSER
As a Doctor Tried to Take Lives, Others Rushed to Save Them The immediate care given to many of those wounded at the Bronx hospital shooting could be the most critical factor in whether they survive. By MARC SANTORA and HANNAH ALANI
How Cardinal Pell Rose to Power, Trailed by a Cloud of Scandal The charges against him followed years of criticism that he had overlooked — or covered up — the widespread abuse of children by clergymen in Australia. By DAMIEN CAVE
Dustin Fowler’s Injury Evokes Another Brief Call-Up, 112 Years Later Drawing a parallel between a Yankees outfielder and Moonlight Graham, who provided an inspiration for the novel on which the movie “Field of Dreams” was based. By ALLAN KREDA
Moon Jae-in, Mika Brzezinski, Jay-Z: Your Friday Evening Briefing Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day. By KAREN ZRAICK and SANDRA STEVENSON
Postcard From Australia: Souvenirs, Slang and Stereotypes On location with a race-in-America reporter for the filming of an eye-opening documentary. Plus an exclusive video exchange with Aboriginal journalist Stan Grant. By JOHN ELIGON
The Interpreter Canada’s Comedy, the Voice of a Polite Nation, Rises in the Trump Era Political humor, “one of our national pastimes,” is a way of pushing back against America’s dominance. Its changes offer a lens into how Canada is changing, too. By MAX FISHER and AMANDA TAUB
S.E.C. Lets All Firms Keep Parts of I.P.O. Filings Secret The regulator is expanding a program that has let smaller companies and technology start-ups keep some information secret early in the I.P.O. process. By CHAD BRAY and MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN
The Saturday Profile From N.B.A. Bench Player to Cult Hero in Turkey Ekpe Udoh led his team to this year’s Euroleague title, but he is revered primarily for what he does off the court: embrace Turkish culture. By PATRICK KINGSLEY
At Their Leisure Why Some Men Don’t Work: Video Games Have Gotten Really Good Young men are working less. Some economists think it’s because they’re home playing video games. By QUOCTRUNG BUI
Nonfiction Stories of a Lifelong Fascination With Africa In “Love, Africa,” Jeffrey Gettleman describes his enduring preoccupation with the continent and the career it has engendered. By NADIFA MOHAMED
Phillies 7, Mets 1 Momentum Deserts the Mets Amid Wave of Misplays Two bizarre plays and a lackluster pitching display left New York five games under .500 and nine games behind the first-place Washington Nationals in the N.L. East. By WALLACE MATTHEWS
Danielle Kang Wins Women’s P.G.A. Championship It was not only Kang’s first major victory, but her first L.P.G.A. Tour title. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
California’s Far North Deplores ‘Tyranny’ of the Urban Majority Rural residents in the state’s northern reaches say they are underrepresented and politically alienated by a system that doesn’t have their interests in mind. By THOMAS FULLER
Side Street For Two Veterans, a Freedom Restored for Independence Day Fred Downs and Artie McAuley, Army veterans who each lost an arm while serving, are the first recipients of new, state-of-the art prosthetic limbs. By DAVID GONZALEZ
Counseled by Industry, Not Staff, E.P.A. Chief Is Off to a Blazing Start Much of President Trump’s policy agenda is mired in delay, but Scott Pruitt has already achieved a major regulatory rollback. By CORAL DAVENPORT
Summer Reading Books: The Ties That Bind Colleges The Times collected information on dozens of college summer reading programs and examined an annual survey of hundreds of universities. A few trends emerged. By DANA GOLDSTEIN
For Gunman at Bronx Hospital, Fleeting Success and Persistent Strife Henry Bello graduated from medical school, but struggled with arrests, bankruptcies and homelessness before opening fire in the Bronx, killing one and wounding six others. By LISA W. FODERARO
For Millions, Life Without Medicaid Services Is No Option Supplemental benefits for millions of recipients, many of them disabled, would be at risk under Republican proposals to repeal the Affordable Care Act. By ABBY GOODNOUGH
Editorial Observer A Democracy Road Trip Through Hungary Beyond Budapest, and across generations, people are working to keep the illiberal forces of Viktor Orban at bay. By CAROL GIACOMO
Gray Matter Forgot Where You Parked? Good When we relearn something we couldn’t recall, we develop a richer form of understanding. By ULRICH BOSER
As a Doctor Tried to Take Lives, Others Rushed to Save Them The immediate care given to many of those wounded at the Bronx hospital shooting could be the most critical factor in whether they survive. By MARC SANTORA and HANNAH ALANI
How Cardinal Pell Rose to Power, Trailed by a Cloud of Scandal The charges against him followed years of criticism that he had overlooked — or covered up — the widespread abuse of children by clergymen in Australia. By DAMIEN CAVE
Dustin Fowler’s Injury Evokes Another Brief Call-Up, 112 Years Later Drawing a parallel between a Yankees outfielder and Moonlight Graham, who provided an inspiration for the novel on which the movie “Field of Dreams” was based. By ALLAN KREDA
Moon Jae-in, Mika Brzezinski, Jay-Z: Your Friday Evening Briefing Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day. By KAREN ZRAICK and SANDRA STEVENSON
Postcard From Australia: Souvenirs, Slang and Stereotypes On location with a race-in-America reporter for the filming of an eye-opening documentary. Plus an exclusive video exchange with Aboriginal journalist Stan Grant. By JOHN ELIGON
The Interpreter Canada’s Comedy, the Voice of a Polite Nation, Rises in the Trump Era Political humor, “one of our national pastimes,” is a way of pushing back against America’s dominance. Its changes offer a lens into how Canada is changing, too. By MAX FISHER and AMANDA TAUB
S.E.C. Lets All Firms Keep Parts of I.P.O. Filings Secret The regulator is expanding a program that has let smaller companies and technology start-ups keep some information secret early in the I.P.O. process. By CHAD BRAY and MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN
The Saturday Profile From N.B.A. Bench Player to Cult Hero in Turkey Ekpe Udoh led his team to this year’s Euroleague title, but he is revered primarily for what he does off the court: embrace Turkish culture. By PATRICK KINGSLEY