A history of the Village Voice.

A profile of the Mexican newsweekly, a “lone voice” in reporting on the narcos.

A profile of the eccentric Gene Weingarten, the only person to twice win the Pulitzer for feature writing.

Matt Taibbi on Thomas Friedman.

On the Daily Mail‘s dominance of England.

Fact-checking David Sedaris.

Can The Washington Post be saved?

On New Yorker writer George W. S. Trow’s descent into madness.

Sixty-nine years after publication, Fortune revisits “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men” — a story it commissioned but did not run.

How investigators nabbed a key member of a group called “Lost Boy.”

A profile of Rebekah Brooks, who started as a secretary at News of the World and became CEO of News International by 41, developing an incredibly close relationship with Rupert Murdoch along the way.

The dissolution of Brooklyn softcore skin-mag Jacques and the marriage of the couple that created it.