Inside Trump’s battles with U.S. intelligence agencies.

In 1978, an eighth grader killed his teacher. After 20 months in a psychiatric facility, he was freed. His classmates still wonder: What really happened?

On the health care failure and what, if anything, comes next.

Kate del Castillo, the actress who brought Sean Penn to Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, tells her side of the story.

The Four Seasons restaurant rose to fame as a place to cut deals and be seen. Then its chauvinistic ways – and, specifically, those of its owner – caught up with it.

An investigation into serial killings in a small North Carolina city.

While accused killer Robert Durst was in Galveston, he made a few friends besides Morris Black.

Rand Paul as the movement’s Pearl Jam.

A tale of ambition, motherhood and political mythmaking in the race for governor of Texas.

A profile of Cormac McCarthy–on the verge of fame.

The plot to turn Texas blue.

The GOP’s younger generation confronts its future.

In the wake of revolution, Libyans envision their future.

The dark art of presidential debate prep.

“Redistricting today has become the most insidious practice in American politics—a way, as the opportunistic machinations following the 2010 census make evident, for our elected leaders to entrench themselves in 435 impregnable garrisons from which they can maintain political power while avoiding demographic realities.”

On the strengths and limitations of the Republican frontrunner:

“The Mormon’s never going to win the who-do-you-want-to-have-a-beer-with contest,” concedes one adviser, while another acknowledges, “He’s never had the experience of sitting in a bar, and like, talking.”

On the battles, both between humans and animals, in Africa’s overpopulated Albertine Rift.

On a 1955 ferris wheel accident.

Stuck between the Taliban and the U.S. Military, Afghanistan’s farmers risk their lives both when they grow, and when they refuse to grow, fields of poppies.

On the workings of Sarah Palin’s inner circle.

A profile of embattled White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.