A device connected to my heart could save my life. It could also be hacked.

A brutal, bloody hunt. A ghastly, devastating attack. And a state left divided on what to do about its 2,500 black bears.

A profile of Jobs. The themes: immortality, relinquishing control, and how being adopted affected his choices for Apple. The lede: “One day, Steve Jobs is going to die.”

To understand the rise of Donald Trump is to understand his mentor, Roy Cohn — and the New York City establishment that aided and abetted him.

“The key differentiator of Super-Aggregators is that they have three-sided markets: users, content providers (which may include users!), and advertisers. Both content providers and advertisers want the user’s attention, and the latter are willing to pay for it.”

A forgotten birthday cake sets off a chain of unexpected events.

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A profile of Heather Armstrong, a mom in Salt Lake City who has more than 1.5 million Twitter followers and a personal blog generating $30,000-$50,000 monthly.

How a doctor and an S.A.C. trader got entangled in a financial scandal.

Baseball legend Lenny Dykstra’s on-field brilliance and private-life disasters, from drunk driving to failed investment and publishing ventures.

A Hells Angel informant’s path from destruction to redemption and back, and a family’s trouble with witness protection.

Romney’s former Bain partner makes a case for inequality.

Police and scientists investigate an outbreak.

Controversy following a climbing disaster that killed eight.

No one knew her secret. Until they did.

Short-seller Andrew Left sniffs out corporate fraud—and gets rich doing it.

“My cousin became a convicted felon in his teens. I tried to make sure he got a second chance. What went wrong?”

Could Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump goad each other into a devastating confrontation?

Life as a young actor when you’re about to become a movie star.

How an industrial designer became Apple’s greatest product.

National economies collapse; species go extinct; political movements rise and fizzle. But—somehow, for some reason—Weird Al keeps rocking.

How a state that was never in doubt became a “national embarrassment.”

On “Night Stalker” Richard Ramirez,who terrorized Los Angeles and San Francisco through a string of over 30 home invasion murders starting in 1984 and ending when he was recognized and apprehended by an angry mob.

“What can I say about Jaco? When I first met him he was extremely present tense and, I would have to say for lack of a better term, extremely sage.”

Lee Holloway programmed internet security firm Cloudflare into being. But then he became apathetic, distant, and unpredictable—for a long time, no one could make sense of it.

A pilgrimage to J.D. Salinger’s New Hampshire home:

The silence surrounding this place is not just any silence. It is the work of a lifetime. It is the work of renunciation and determination and expensive litigation. It is a silence of self-exile, cunning, and contemplation. In its own powerful, invisible way, the silence is in itself an eloquent work of art. It is the Great Wall of Silence J.D. Salinger has built around himself.