A wide-ranging chat with the magazine editor.

Trevell Coleman wasn’t sure whether he’d killed a man. But after 17 years, he needed to find out.

A delightfully strange and humorous imagining of Mitt Romney's thoughts during a massage.

"Something curdled inside him—he didn’t deserve this dig. Yes, he’d been busy lately, insanely busy, especially with those foreign-policy dopes, but he’d tried to remain attentive to his lady. He’d arranged this nice weekend for them. He’d canceled events, he’d canceled events that were scheduled months ago. Suddenly, he was impatient to get away from her, to find the remote and check on the day’s news. He hadn’t turned on the set since lunchtime yesterday, a gesture he’d hoped that she’d notice and appreciate, mostly because it came so hard to him."

The allure of conclusion-shaping and a wunderkind’s fall.

Life inside Long Island’s largest cluster of sex offenders.

On the Clintons’ political future.

On the staff of a Trader Joe’s in New York City.

Grizzly Bear and the surprisingly crappy economics of indie rock stardom.

On Nate Silver and the messiness of modern political polling.

On a week spent immersed in right wing media.

Why so many smart kids are cheating on tests.

A profile of Mindy Kaling.

On New York City’s housing projects.

The governor of Arkansas, profiled.

A profile of the vice president.

A depressed, pregnant woman shares a brief conversation with then-Senate candidate Barack Obama; from Chabon's upcoming novel.

" At his remark, the pregnant woman nodded without turning to look at him—there was an elaborate candelabra of a potted cactus behind whose tapered thorns she appeared to be attempting, somewhat punitively, to conceal herself. Obama was running for the United States Senate that summer and had given a wonderful speech last month at the Democratic Convention in Boston. When she did turn to him, her eyes got very wide."

An appraisal of the Wisconsin congressman’s “green-eyeshade fiscal conservatism.”

Encountering a pack of wild dogs in Manhattan.

The day Hurricane Irene nearly drowned Prattsville, New York.

Fame, fashion, and a trip to the zoo.

On the Calorie Restriction movement, the scientifically-supported belief that the key to a very long life is to eat as little as possible.

A survey of sex on a Saturday night in New York City.

The frenzied few days before the wedding of Prince Charles and Diana Spencer.

A college president on the bizarre experience of being informed by NBC News that he had hired a war criminal to teach French.

What became of Annie Moore, the first person to arrive on Ellis Island?