“Be careful. The toe you stepped on yesterday may be connected to the ass you have to kiss today.”

A profile of the late Buddy Cianci, who was twice forced to resign as mayor of Providence after being convicted of felonies.

On the “horrible weirdness” of Kim Jung Il’s Korea.

On Rwanda’s cycling team.

A profile of Sabrina Harman, the soldier who took many of the notorious Abu Ghraib photographs.