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A conversation with the former first lady five years into her life as a widow.

The author ponders the dissolution of his own marriage, and others.

“I’ll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear. I mean really, no fear!”

On a small section of land wedged between Egypt and Sudan called Bir Tawil and the American who tried to claim it for himself.

Between 1937 and 1973, Earl Johnson served out the sentences on nine felonies, worked for Charlie “Cherry Nose” Gio, became friends with a Soviet spy, and tried to kill “Joe Cargo” Valachi of the Cosa Nostra with a poison dart.

“After 14 years I finally reported him. In the eyes of the law, my biggest mistake was not fearing him more.”

How a detachment of U.S. Army soldiers smoked out the original Ku Klux Klan.

The post-newsroom lives of veteran newspaper reporters who have lost their jobs.

Middle class apps struggle to survive.

The unexpected evolution of Olympic medalist Debi Thomas.

A young girl uses unusual coping mechanisms after her father's death.

A trip to Japan and a glimpse of our automated future.

How a burst blood vessel transformed the mind of a deliberate, controlled chiropractor into that of an utterly unfiltered, massively prolific artist.

How a young Afghan trucking-company owner became spectacularly rich.

How the Baylor University Medical Center became a force in the heart transplant business.

Wayne Simmons was ideal conservative commentator. A former C.I.A. operative, he ate lunch with Donald Rumsfeld, took trips to Guantánamo aboard Air Force Two, and pumped the party line on Fox News. There was only one problem: Simmons had never been in the C.I.A.

In his own final days, a Right to Die activist tells the story of his secret, illegal assisted-suicide service.

Searching for meaning at Baldwin’s soon-to-be-demolished home in France.

On September 14, 2001, Lyle Stevik checked into the Lake Quinault Inn. Three days later, the motel’s housekeeper found him dead. But “Lyle Stevik,” it turns out, was an alias.

The original article that inspired the movie Spotlight.

A civil trial of Officer Marco Proano, who shot Niko Husband in 2011, finds him not guilty. By accident.

The difficult business of spending money well.