On the twilight of the Iranian Revolution.

“It’s Tuesday, it’s February, it’s my first day back at work after a week on vacation. I notice the candle in the foyer just as the whoosh of the door blows it out. They never did that for my birthday, I think as I walk past reception.”

The aftermath of a stranger’s death and the puzzle of psychosis.

The politics and rhetoric of Trevor Noah’s appointment as the new host of the Daily Show.

The musicians of Mali find themselves in the middle of a civil war.

A profile of Jaron Lanier, virtual reality pioneer and the author of You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto.

A few months after working at Ground Zero, Kurt Sonnenfeld became a suspect in the mysterious and high-profile death of his wife. He got off, barely, and started a new life in South America. But when the U.S. tried to bring him back to face charges, Sonnenfeld went to the local media. The Feds didn’t want him for murder, he said. They wanted to put him away because of what he knew about 9/11.

For the members of UCLA’s undocumented immigrant club, going to school means fighting for an education most students take for granted.

A profile of Moktar Belmoktar, Al-Qaida’s “most difficult employee,” who was responsible for a major attack on an Algerian BP plant and, according to U.S. and Libyan forces, was killed in an air strike on Sunday.

“Norbert Grupe—a Nazi soldier’s son, boxer, professional wrestler, failed actor, criminal, and miserable human being who was never so happy as when he could make someone hate him—was once a man so beautiful that other men wanted to paint him.”

The anatomy of a bungled, massively expensive undercover sting conducted by the Seattle Police Department.

The long arm of the DEA reaches into Liberia to bust a cocaine trafficker.

The taming of the political reporter.

A week in the life of a family weathering the coronavirus.

On the curious life of Archibald Butt, confidant to President Taft and tragic victim of the sinking Titanic.

As much as the narrative of Butt’s heroism meant to the family, to the White House, to the military, it seems all too cinematic. The reality is that the experience was probably a great annoyance to him, right up until the moment it became a nightmare.

The rise and fall of the “most far-flung, most organized, and most brazen example of homosexual extortion in the nation’s history.”

Nearing the end of his career, a Canadian tycoon named Michael DeGroote went for one last deal, investing $100 million to build a Las Vegas in the Dominican Republic. His partners? Two brothers with a criminal past, a con man and an old friend with close ties to the mob.

“You probably don’t believe me, but I didn’t kill Harry.”

On billionaire financier Lynn Tilton and her quest to become a public figure.

This is what I learned: he was working at this, too. Death didn’t happen to Steve, he achieved it.

Once a “folk hero,” Carson has become controversial. And his social conservative stances puzzle his former colleagues.

Inside a plot to influence American elections, starting with one small-town race.