A conversation with the author of Calvin and Hobbes.

How the Third Reich was founded on a conspiracy theory.

A Little League season in Camden, New Jersey, where the murder rate is 17 times the national average.

On the intrigue surrounding Dr. Zhivago’s publication.

Diagnosed with a rare blood disease, the author reflects on illness and addiction.

A visit to the hotel North Korea starved to build, still unfinished after breaking ground in 1987.

An investigation into the death of a sacred white buffalo and the man who raised it.

A bookkeeper’s $9 million swindle, her lavish second life, and the boss who didn’t notice.

A visit to a Maine museum devoted to Bigfoot and other mythical creatures.

An 8th-generation Louisvillian on the Kentucky Derby, bourbon and the history of his hometown.

On Japan’s Hokkaido, an island the size of Ireland, and its rebel leader of lore, Shakushain.

The bumpy ride from St. Petersburg and Moscow, through a Russia slipping back into the 19th century.

On the factories of India and the women whose lives they ruin.

How the ski town of the super-rich is responding to global warming.

The congressman (and future Mayor of New York) vs. the South American assassin.

In Hollywood’s new blockbuster economy, the actors who portray superheroes are as interchangeable as the costumes they wear.

The fight to grant asylum to the translators who worked—and sometimes fought—alongside U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The inner workings of a high school basketball team stacked with international talent.

Why has the Palestinian cause failed to produce a Martin Luther King-like leader with a platform based on non-violence?

An investigation into the sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests in Alaska Native villages.

A profile of Larry Garrison, the man who “gets paid to bring tabloid stories to TV news programs.”

On the investors betting big on the Iraqi economy, which they believe has nowhere to go but up.

“Is he Socrates or Mengele?” On the late Jack Kevorkian.

What are the foreign policy views of Michele Bachmann, Tim Pawlenty, Rick Perry and Mitt Romney?

An interview with futurist Ray Kurzweil on the “Singularity” and the overlap between technology and spiritualism.