A profile of the chairman of Fox News.

On the ubiquity of forest fires.

The biographer before the publication of “The Passage of Power.”

“Economic theory as it exists increasingly resembles a shed full of broken tools.”

A year of reporting reveals a culture of incest, rape, and abuse.

A prolific con artist, decades of grift, and a trail of shattered relationships.

A journalist’s memories of covering the great Baltimore fire of 1904.

A profile of the legendary producer at the beginning of his career.

A tale-of-the-tape breakdown of the 2012 presidential debates.

A profile of Amar Bose, founder of the Bose Corporation.

A political history of Donald Rumsfeld.

What happens when we run out of houses.

W.H. Auden’s quiet, personal pursuit of kindness and honor.

A profile of Ludwig Minelli, the head of the Swiss assisted suicide organization Dignitas.

A profile of Bob Fishman, the impresario of CBS’s NFL production crew.

The inside story of Pennsylvania’s governor and the fall of Joe Paterno.

Inside the multibillion-dollar business of keeping foreigners out of America.

A profile of the Time Man of the Year for 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The story of H1N1 and one of the lives it claimed.

A profile of the artist at the time of her fifth solo record.

On the life and career of Richard Pryor, as he neared the end of both.

The story of one of the great final acts in sports history.

The extraordinary story of two Pacific voyages of discovery a thousand years apart.

Samaria Rice is the mother of Tamir, not a “mother of the movement.”

Why hundreds of Buddhist monks moved from Taiwan to Prince Edward Island, buying up thousands of acres of land in the process.