A presidential historian interviews a president focused on history.

Exploring the crime-ridden depths of the internet with Opsec, a former professional hacker.

A two-part series on how and why Arianna Huffington lost control of The Huffington Post.

How Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger and his Airbus A320 landed safely in the Hudson.

He was just another coked-up agent (repping the likes of Steven Soderbergh) when he disappeared into Iraq, shooting heaps of footage he would attempt to package into a pro-war documentary. And that was just the beginning.

The rise and fall of Lou Pearlman; blimp impresario, packager of boy bands like Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC, molester, fraudster, and ultimately fugitive from justice.

Behind the scenes with Ice Cube, Cuba Gooding Jr., Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne, and a 22-year-old film student named John Singleton.

Jacqueline Kennedy, William Manchester, and the battle over the authorized account of J.F.K.’s assassination.

On Timothy Treadwell, who lived and died with the bears of Alaska.

There’s a growing gap between the gun lobby’s leadership and its rank-and-file.

The lonesome death of Arnold Rothstein, notorious gambler, inspiration for the character Meyer Wolfsheim in The Great Gatsby, alleged fixer of the 1910 World Series, opiate importation pioneer, mobster.

A profile of Stanley Kubrick written by his longtime friend.

It’s been a rough year.

A stroll through Tokyo’s Tsukiji, the world’s largest seafood market, and the mecca of the global sushi trade.

How a 29-year-old actress, reeling from the death of her first love and battling Dustin Hoffman off-screen, found herself on the set of Kramer vs. Kramer.

Most of the men were in their 60s and 70s, with heart conditions, diabetes, and replacement hips. They made off with millions in cash and jewels, only to give themselves up by not understanding how technology works.

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

Lily gets ready for her first date.

There were so many ways the two planes could have avoided the collision. The odds were so slim. But high above the Amazon in 2006, a combination of technology and human fallibility brought them together.

The mysterious death of a champion Irish setter.

Sitting alone in his San Jose office, Michael Burry saw the bubble in the subprime-mortgage market before anyone else. So he convinced Wall Street to let him bet on it, even though few were betting on him. The article that became The Big Short.

Celebrated doctor Paolo Macchiarini was not all that he seemed.

How PCC, once an inmate soccer team and now Brazil’s most notorious prison gang, coordinated seven days of riots throughout São Paulo using mobile phones.

The whole thing began over a puddle in the driveway. Eight years later, Peter Nygard and his neighbor Louis Bacon, who own houses next to each other in paradise, have spent tens of millions in a constantly escalating legal war. Neither man spends much time on the island anymore.

The origin story of Gabriel García Márquez’s classic.