The “first daughter” spent years rigorously cultivating her image. But she wasn’t prepared for scrutiny. — By Elaina Plott You could tell by his eyes, the way they popped and gleamed and fixed on someone behind me. Only one person gets that kind of look from Donald Trump. “Oh!” the president said. “Ivanka!” Ivanka Trump lifted her hands, astonished. “I forgot you guys were meeting —…

No other matchup would be as riveting — or as revealing — as Harris versus Trump. But first she has to get through the primaries. — By Elizabeth Weil So here’s the plan: Kamala is going to walk up to Rodney Scott’s Whole Hog BBQ from the left. At 12:50 p.m., Rodney Scott will greet her. She’ll enter through the side door and order at the second register, from the woman in the red shirt. Kamala…

Thea Hunter was a promising, brilliant scholar. And then she got trapped in academia’s permanent underclass. — A bald eagle in flight is elegance to behold. The sudden, violent flaps of its wings are broken by sublime extension as it locks onto a breeze and glides. Occasionally, 10 blocks north of the George Washington Bridge in Manhattan, you can spot a bald eagle overhead in Fort Tryon…

The tech giant’s ‘growth team’ brought it over a billion users — but did it also sow the seeds for current troubles? — By Hannah Kuchler If you joined Facebook at any time over the past decade, Alex Schultz probably had something to do with it. The 36-year-old from south London, a Cambridge physics graduate and self-taught specialist in online marketing, moved to Silicon Valley in 2004. …

Success in forensics is about making yourself vulnerable. Several former competitors accuse a prominent coach of exploiting that vulnerability to sexually harass students. — By Caroline Kitchener In the lobby of a deserted student-union building in Peoria, Illinois, the George Mason University speech team falls into formation. …

A former Jehovah’s Witness is using stolen documents to expose allegations that the religion has kept hidden for decades — By Dougla Quenqua In March 1997, the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, the nonprofit organization that oversees the Jehovah’s Witnesses, sent a letter to each of its 10,883 U.S. congregations, and to many more congregations worldwide. The organization was concerned about the legal risk posed by possible child molesters within…

As video games get better and job prospects worse, more young men are dropping out of the job market to spend their time in an alternate reality. Ryan Avent suspects this is the beginning of something big. — By Ryan Avent David Mullings was always a self-starter. Born in Jamaica, he moved to Florida to go to university, and founded his first company — a digital media firm that helped Caribbean content find a wider audience — before finishing business school at the University of Miami. In 2011…