A profile of former Liberian president Charles Taylor, who was sentenced to 50 years today after being convicted of committing crimes against humanity.

The story of Christopher and Jeffrey George, the twin proprietors of a pain clinic empire.

The highest-ranking CIA officer to be convicted of spying passes the tricks of the trade along to his son.

The bizarre story of the disappearance of “downtown legend” John Lurie after a former friend resolved to take his life.

The life of Reverend Charles Moore, who died by self-immolation in the parking lot of a Texas strip mall.

On Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik and the rise of Islamophobia in Norway.

The short-lived literary career of Breece DʼJ Pancake and his roadmap to a world of oppressive poverty.

He was one of Israel’s greatest spies. Then he brought his own country to the brink of war.

The story of how federal authorities blew the biggest anti-terror investigation of the past decade—the post-9/11 anthrax attacks—and nearly destroyed an innocent man.

The island of Coiba off the coast of Panama is both a nature preserve and an open-air prison.

[Part 2 of 2] The story behind this spring’s spate of retributive murders in Southwest D.C.

An hour-by-hour account of the explosion and rescue effort on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico.

A manifesto from one of the first professional bloggers on a new ‘golden age of journalism.’

On a group of women whose lives were forever altered by the Leif Garrett episode of Behind the Music.

Most of the country is trying to keep guns out of schools. A town in rural Idaho is taking the opposite approach.

Brazilian businessman Zero Freitas has amassed the world’s largest collection of records, the majority of which have never been digitized.

The story of two weeks when the most wanted man in the world was hidden in the depths of a Hong Kong slum.

A profile of NASCAR Dale Earnhardt Jr., who is returning to racing after a series of concussions.

An interview with the founding editor of the New York Review of Books, who died Monday.

The long legal saga of Kerry Max Cook, who for almost 40 years fought to clear his name after being convicted of murder.

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

On Long Island, unaccompanied minors are caught between the violence of MS-13 and the fear of deportation.

How a journalist who wrote a seminal account of police brutality during the 1967 race riots in Newark wound up on the wrong side of the law.

A profile of then-First Lady Barbara Bush, published just before the 1992 presidential election. The lede: “Even Barbara Bush’s stepmother is afraid of her.”

The appearance of an ultra-rare Boba Fett with the missile rocks the insular world of Star Wars toy collectors.