Paranoia and hypocrisy in America’s heartland.

Ted Williams grows old.

How Viagra went from a medical mistake to a $3 billion industry.

The symptoms are here: multiyear droughts, large-scale crop failures, a major city—Cape Town—on the verge of going dry, increasing outbreaks of violence, fears of full-scale water wars. The big question: How do we keep the water flowing?

A profile of Mister Rogers.

When the author’s wife was dying, his best friend moved in.

On the 1998 crash of Swissair Fight 111 into the sea off a small Nova Scotia fishing village.

Following fallen soldier Joe Montgomery from field to grave.

A profile of the chairman of Fox News.

After an 11-year-old Navajo girl was kidnapped, her family and friends sprang into action to find her. Why did it take so long for law enforcement to join them?

The complicated post-retirement life of Joe DiMaggio.

It started with a candle in an abandoned warehouse. It ended with temperatures above 3,000 degrees and the men of the Worcester Fire Department in a fight for their lives.

After the explosion of the Columbia shuttle in 2003, two American astronauts aboard the International Space Station suddenly found themselves with no ride home.

A profile of the leader of America’s bobsled team, who is competing in the Olympics months after the death of his mentor.

A day after William Faulkner’s funeral and a few weeks before James Meredith became the first African-American student to register at the University of Mississipi, the author arrived in Oxford to cover the Dixie National Baton Twirling Institute.

For the Never Trumpers, “Trumpism is more than a freakish blight on the republic. It is a moral test.”

One woman’s final days with her family.

What really happened on November 8, 2016.

A visit to a Trump rally in Ohio.

In 1956, an ocean liner named the Andrea Doria sank off the coast of Cape Cod. Half a century later, deep-sea divers—the author included—were still risking their lives to explore it.

Growing old at the Playboy Mansion.

In the days after 9/11, a photo of an unknown man falling from the South Tower appeared in publications across the globe. This is the story of that photograph, and of the search to find the man pictured in it.

Christian Longo brutally murdered his familyand then posed in Mexico as a New York Times reporter named Michael Finkel. From death row, Longo asked the real Finkel to attend his execution.

Did Michell Carter’s texts cause Conrad Roy to kill himself?

Noorullah Aminya was once a valuable ally to the American military. Then, with the Taliban going after his family, he attempted to defect and spent three years in federal detention. To be granted asylum, he needed to convince a judge that the Taliban rule Afghanistan in full. Which would mean America has lost the war.