How Guzmán was captured the last time.

The Sinaloa cartel was flooding cocaine across the border. The DEA was listening. A 4-part series based on hundreds of pages of transcripts from intercepted calls, court testimony, and investigative reports.

El Chapo and the ruins of the Mexican-American border.

On a Mexican newsweekly brave enough to cover El Chapo.

A report from El Chapo’s battle for Guadalajara.

On Sinaloa’s multi-billion dollar business model.

A voting rights march, from Selma to the statehouse in Montgomery, Alabama.

Rebellious teens on the Sunset Strip.

On the “jarringly, piece by piece, line by line, and without interruption, worthless” writing of Pauline Kael.

How one obscure sentence upset the New York Times.

Ripping out the guts of an “utterly preposterous document”: the Starr Report on the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

A patient with Tourette’s resents the treatment for it.

Being treated, as a doctor, is not all it’s cracked up to be.

A man’s deteriorating mind can only make sense of the world through music.

On blindness.

On Temple Grandin.

A hike gone terribly wrong.

Memories of a scientific childhood.

On life with amnesia and the role that music plays in memory.

Self-experiments in chemistry.

Sacks on learning he had terminal cancer.

A final conversation.

“I like to write. I’m moved by writing. One can’t analyze it beyond that.”

A short story about envy and failure in the 1970s literary scene.

An excerpt from Salter’s memoir, Burning the Days.

Salter, a former Air Force pilot, on the heroism of Sully Sullenberger.

A profile of Salter near the end.

Salter on the power of self-expression.

"In the richness of language, its grace, breadth, dexterity, lies its power. To speak with clarity, brevity and wit is like holding a lightning rod."

A profile of the world’s best League of Legends player, a 19-year-old Korean kid whose nickname is God.

The truncated, violent lives of Richard Matt and David Sweat before their prison escape.

A 38,000-word answer.

The inside story of the coup that has brought the world’s most feared terrorist network to the brink of collapse.

Utah has become the capital of the modern snake oil industry, with dozens of get-rich-quick schemes—also known as “multi-level marketing”—filling its office parks.

Growing up among the tall waves and schoolyard bullies of Hawaii.

On surfer girls in Maui: the story that led to the film Blue Crush.

A profile of Ken Bradshaw, who at 45 surfed the tallest wave in recorded history.

A visit to the massive Northern California surf break.

The underground culture of big waves and wild times in 1961 Malibu, and the gang of teenage boys who worshiped at the feet of the beach’s dark prince, surfing legend and grifter Miki Dora.

Getting away from it all in Mexico.

On surf legend Eddie Aikau and the complicated history of Hawaii.

A trip to the French island of Réunion to report on a bloody battle between surfers and sharks.

On surfing, and surfing in San Francisco, and surfing with a San Francisco surfing fanatic.

How Sepp Blatter, the head of FIFA, controls soccer and keeps his position as the most powerful person in sports.

On FIFA’s history of scandal.

How a swindling suburban soccer dad named Chuck Blazer pocketed millions as he helped make the sport a booming success in America.

From Muncie to NBC.

A pre-Late Night profile.

Recounting an appearance on Letterman.

Memories of working on the show in the ’90s.

The sex scandal.

An exit interview.

On police brutality in New York and the race riots of 1964.

Albuquerque has one of the highest rates in the country of fatal shootings by police, and no officer has been indicted.

On the militarization of America’s police forces.

Brutality persists at the famous prison.

The perilous existence of confidential informants.

How California law has shielded police violence in Oakland.

The brutalization of Abner Louima and the tragic fate of a handful of flawed Brooklyn cops.

Susan Berman's life was colorful. Her death was shrouded in mystery.

"I have information that's going to blow the top off things," Susan told her.

"What do you mean?" Kim asked. "What information?"

"Well, I don't have it myself," said Susan. "But I know how to get it."

Kathie Durst’s friends spent almost twenty years hoping someone or something would catch up to Durst. They just didn’t think it would happen in the form of the murder of Morris Black.

Bobby was odd in other ways. He was a pothead—he smoked like a chimney. He had facial tics. But his strangest tendency—the thing that no one could ever fathom—was that Bobby belched. Belched and farted, actually. All the time. Anywhere. In front of anyone. Serial gas expulsion was his statement to the world, went the theory. It was his way of saying, “I’m Bobby Durst, and fuck you if you don’t like it.” That was the theory, anyway.

In Galveston, Durst made unusual friends in the seedy bars he frequented.

As the bus driver had guessed, the young black cross-dresser who rode the No. 6 and disembarked at 53rd and P 1/2 with Durst had indeed departed Galveston a few days after Morris Black's headless trunk and dismembered limbs were discovered in the bay. When I tracked down Frankie in an apartment in another Texas city this past January and asked about the timing of her departure, her bulbous eyes narrowed and she shook her head emphatically. "I'm not even gonna comment," she said quietly. "I didn't have nothing to do with it; I ain't gonna be nobody's damn witness; I'm not gonna be subpoenaed to come to no court—mm-mm! He cut that man up! First the head, then..."

On living with Durst’s abandoned furniture in Galveston.

“Are you sure he won’t mind,” I asked Klaus, suddenly hesitant. Durst’s murder trial was underway in the county courthouse a few blocks away from where we were standing. He had been charged with first-degree murder, but was claiming self-defense. I imagined Durst on the witness stand and it seemed wrong, suddenly, to take his belongings without his permission. Later, people who learned about my furniture would tell me that taking Durst’s things was wrong for other reasons. How could you? they would ask, mouths agape. He was a murderer! But I’ve never been sentimental or superstitious. More than disgusted or scared by the furniture, I was curious. But at the same time, I didn’t want to feel like I was stealing from someone—murderer or not.

What it’s like to be gay in Putin’s Russia.

“It was there that Nancy and Louis fell in love not only with each other, but also with Afghanistan itself. The country was as exceptional and difficult as they were—and when it descended into chaos, they had no choice but to follow it.” [subscription required]

Ignore the barrage of violent threats and harassing messages that confront you online every day.” That’s what women are told. But these relentless messages are an assault on women’s careers, their psychological bandwidth, and their freedom to live online. We have been thinking about Internet harassment all wrong.

On a humanitarian crisis in Texas, the deadliest state in the U.S. for undocumented immigrants.

Life in your nineties.

“In less than a year, he’d lost his mother, his father, and, as he’d once and sometimes still felt Julia to be, the love of his life…”

For more than a decade,it was Michelle Lyons’s job to observe the final moments of death row inmates—but watching 278 executions did not come without a cost.

“It was there that Nancy and Louis fell in love not only with each other, but also with Afghanistan itself. The country was as exceptional and difficult as they were—and when it descended into chaos, they had no choice but to follow it.”

The examination to become a London cabby is possibly the most difficult test in the world — demanding years of study to memorize the labyrinthine city’s 25,000 streets and any business or landmark on them. As GPS and Uber imperil this tradition, is there an argument for learning as an end in itself?

The father of the Sandy Hook killer searches for answers.

On the trail of the phantom women who changed American music and then vanished without a trace.

A sumo wrestling tournament. A failed coup ending in seppuku. A search for a forgotten man. How one writer’s trip to Japan became a journey through oblivion.

For nearly thirty years, a phantom haunted the woods of Central Maine. Unseen and unknown, he lived in secret, creeping into homes in the dead of night and surviving on what he could steal. To the spooked locals, he became a legend—or maybe a myth. They wondered how he could possibly be real. Until one day last year, the hermit came out of the forest

Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

Life in your nineties.

She tried public appearances. She tried being reclusive. She tried leaving the country, and she tried finding a job. But the epic humiliation of 1998, when her affair with Bill Clinton became an all-consuming story, has followed Monica Lewinsky every day. After 10 years of self-imposed reticence, and now hoping to help victims of Internet shaming, she critiques the culture that put a 24-year-old through the wringer and calls out the feminists who joined the chorus.

A memoir of gay male literature.

“How young were my boys when I moved them to a town, actually not even a town but a hamlet situated inside a town that would, within months, become the site of the largest primary school shooting in the country’s history?”

The story of Rick Wershe, an infamous teenage drug dealer in 1980s Detroit who flew in kilos of cocaine and was arrested at 17. Still incarcerated, Wershe now claims he was working with the FBI all along. Was one of Detroit’s most notorious criminals also one of the feds’ most valuable informants?

The city’s drop in crime has been nothing short of miraculous. A year-long investigation into the numbers.

What it’s like to be gay in Putin’s Russia.

How the world’s most notorious drug lord was captured.

Two years ago, Yasiel Puig fled Cuba in the hands of black-market smugglers. This is the story of how the cost of the defection journey - in money and human lives - shadows him still.

In Bangladesh, one year after the worst accident in the history of the garment industry, recovery remains a fragile process, justice seems elusive, and reform has a long way to go.

“You Palestinians can never see the fucking big picture.”

Sexual assault on campus is a serious problem. But efforts to protect women from a putative epidemic of violence have led to misguided policies that infringe on the civil rights of men.

Ignore the barrage of violent threats and harassing messages that confront you online every day.” That’s what women are told. But these relentless messages are an assault on women’s careers, their psychological bandwidth, and their freedom to live online. We have been thinking about Internet harassment all wrong.

“I became an Alzheimer’s caregiver the week of my 29th birthday. It was August 2012, and I was standing at my kitchen counter in Washington when I got a call from a family friend telling me, “We have a problem.” My father had been hospitalized with congestive heart failure. For seven years, he’d been the primary caregiver for his older sister, who had Alzheimer’s disease. Without his oversight, she had followed his hospitalization with one of her own after collapsing in her bedroom from dehydration, or low blood sugar, or both. My 66-year-old aunt was a widow with no children. My father was a divorced bachelor, and I was an only child. They were my responsibility.”

There’s no helpline for pedophiles who want treatment before they act. So a teen with a terrible secret had to find his own way to save himself and others like him.

Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, the schools in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, show how separate and unequal education is coming back.

An exploration of the psychological elements involved with decision-making when skiing in avalanche terrain.

Paul Scheier lived a full and loving life. So when his cancer returned at age 86, he said no more hospitals, no chemo. He faced the end on his own terms - something that’s not easy to do in America today. But he showed that it can be done.

On a humanitarian crisis in Texas, the deadliest state in the US for undocumented immigrants.

From righteous fury to faux indignation, everything we got mad about in 2014—and how outrage has taken over our lives.

A story not about the Rwandan genocide, but about what came after: about what happens when people who have tried to kill their neighbors have to learn to live as neighbors once more.

The United States fights wars it can’t win using soldiers it doesn’t know.

On July 22, 2013, 66-year-old Gerry Largay began hiking a 32-mile section of the Appalachian Trail. She hasn’t been heard from since.

The scientists at Beyond Meat have concocted a plant-protein-based performance burger that delivers the juicy flavor and texture of beef with none of the dietary and environmental downsides.

How a young entrepreneur built a media empire by repackaging memes.

A 3-part interview with the man who says he helped bury the body of Hae Min Lee.

Notes on consuming a novel.

The rise and murderous fall of the Harkey family, the scions of a pecan dynasty.

The inside story of how Yahoo’s C.E.O. lost her way.

A baby’s brain needs love to develop.

Michael Brown beat the odds by graduating from high school before his death—odds that remain stacked against black students in St. Louis and the rest of the country.

Cuba’s wary embrace of private enterprise.

The story of William Morgan: American, wanderer, Cuban revolutionary.

The country’s uncertain future.

Witnessing an execution in war-torn Cuba.

The tale of a Cuban boxer leads a filmmaker to a larger story.

Exiled in 1962, a pair of brothers return home.

On baseball player Yasiel Puig’s escape from Cuba.

A crime novelist navigates Cuba’s shifting reality.

What it’s like to have “five million detectives trying to work out if Adnan is a pyschopath.”

Talking with America’s most-popular sex columnnist.

Women who kill their newborns usually claim to have been in denial about their pregnancies. Can you carry a child to term without realizing it?

The complete and chaotic history of Reddit.

An oral history of Boogie Nights.

In the gentrifying Bywater, the intertwined destinies of a legendary gay pool-bar and a woman who was drugged there.

On Ferguson, Cosby, and what ‘racial progress’ really means.

The old axiom that more is better is no longer true.

Opening up about medical mistakes.

Nancy and Frank Howard were happily married for three decades. Then he fell in love with another woman, embezzled $30 million, and hired a parade of inept hit men to kill her.