A mom looks back on the “brief but wondrous experience” of raising her son Mattie, a little boy poet with a devastating rare disease who earned a following around the world.

A profile of Steve Bannon’s 29-year-old protégé, the Washington bureau chief at Breitbart, who according to a former editor “has two modes: murder and blowjob.”

How a tragedy transformed a small town in West Virginia.

Donors all over America opened their wallets for his United States Navy Veterans Association. Politicians all over Washington posed for grip-and-grins with him. But not only was he not a legitimate fundraiser for military families—he wasn’t even Bobby Charles Thompson.

How a brewery became more famous for what’s on its bottle than what’s in it.

Chris Barry was born into Washington D.C. royalty. He died alone, essentially homeless, just a year after losing a race for his father’s former seat.

On chemo.

The story of a home invasion, a torture session, and one lawyer who nearly killed another.

He drives a Toyota. He eats fro-yo. He takes care of two dozen feral cats.

Rabbi Barry Freundel said he would help dozens of women convert to Judaism. In the process, he secretly videotaped them naked.

A profile of Joe Biden, written not long after the car crash that killed his wife and daughter.

If you’re falsely claiming to have once been a Navy SEAL, Don Shipley will expose you. And then he’ll put the video on YouTube.

Although she is one of the richest writers in the country, her finances are a mess.

John Beale was an exemplary employee at the Environmental Protection Agency. He also led a double life, though not the rumored one at the CIA his colleagues whispered about.

The man who killed John Wilkes Booth was a eunuch. By choice.

What happened to one of the most hated basketball players in NCAA history after playing a single season at Georgetown.

Behind a $1,000 sundae were two very, very ill-suited business partners.

The residents of Green Bank, West Virginia, can’t use cell phones, wi-fi, or other modern technology due to a high-tech government telescope. Recently, this ban has made the town a magnet for so-called electrosensitives, and the locals aren’t thrilled to have them.

The inside story, involving low ratings, new ownership, suspected leaks, and a mandate that Meet the Press “loosen up.”

The flawed data on safety equipment.

Vivien Thomas was paid a janitor’s wage, never went to college, and still became a legend in the field of heart surgery.

The author goes in search of his father’s days as a member of an elite club of sport parachutists.

How a once-lauded psychiatrist became a prolific prescriber of painkillers in one of Virginia’s poorest and most isolated counties.

Investigating the murder of a friend and colleague.

Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe build the most powerful Tea Party organization in the country. Then a feud threatened to undo everything.