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It mostly had to do with Patch, the executive’s hyperlocal and unprofitable baby.

A homegrown boxer sets his sights on the big time.

President Bush’s strange friendship with Vladimir Putin.

“The only problem is he was so successful that Hollywood decided to devour his Xanadu, with premium vodka parties and assistants scouring the Park City Albertsons for Fiji water. ‘It makes me fucking nuts,’ says Redford.”

The trial of a 10-year-old who murdered his neo-Nazi father.

Last fall, a team of American Special Forces arrived in Nerkh, a district just west of Kabul. Six months later, amid allegations of torturing and murdering locals, the team was gone. Shortly after they left, the remains of 10 missing villagers were found outside their vacated base. An investigation into a possible war crime.

How the corpses of Hitler’s victims still haunt modern science—and American abortion politics.

On interviewing and napping beside Norman Mailer.

An interview with painter Chris Martin.

How John Snavely went from petty criminal to porn star to prison.

Do dolphins and humans really share a special bond?

Ignored early warnings, political pressure, and a botched Obamacare rollout.

An interview with Cleve Backster, a former interrogation specialist with the CIA who used a polygraph machine in the 1960s to develop his theory of “primary perception,” which contends that plants have feelings.

They advertise murder for hire but work for the government. Inside the world of America’s fake hit men.

Eleven months after Sandy Hook, Newtown’s mourning remains incalculable, especially that of the parents who lost their children. And the influx of sympathy—and money—has sometimes made the grieving more difficult rather than less.

Inside the N.S.A.’s mission to spy on just about everyone.

The world’s richest prisoner interviewed from the Siberian prison colony he calls home.

He’d blown the Denver debate. Now he was on the verge of blowing the second and risking his reelection. “I just don’t know if I can do this,” Obama told his team. The story of how they turned things around, excerpted from Double Down: Game Change 2012.

Separating truth from lore in Haiti: “The dossier was, at bottom, a murder story, the judge said—but it was a murder story with the great oddity that the victim did not die.”

What did soccer have to do with two brutal murders after a pickup game?

The complicated case of Michelle Kosilek, a murderer fighting for sexual reassignment surgery.

A profile of personal finance guru Dave Ramsey, who built his biblically inspired get-out-of-debt empire on the premise “it’s within your power to not take part in recessions and the economic troubles facing American families.”

For years, Joshua Milton Blahyi, better known as General Butt Naked, was one of Liberia’s most feared warlords. Then he became a pastor. Today he visits the families of his victims to seek forgiveness for his sins.

Ending a pregnancy in the most “pro-life” state in America.