How America is trying to fight terrorism in Africa without doing any of the actual fighting.

“Professional boxing is the only major American sport whose primary, and often murderous, energies are not coyly deflected by such artifacts as balls and pucks.”

A growing movement is seeking a deeper knowledge of themselves through tracking sleep, exercise, sex, food, location, productivity. Technology has made it possible—but hasn’t taught us how to interpret the findings.

A conversation with the author of Calvin and Hobbes.

How the Third Reich was founded on a conspiracy theory.

On the intrigue surrounding Dr. Zhivago’s publication.

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

Twenty-six years after he was wrongfully imprisoned for the murder of his wife, Michael Morton sees the real killer brought to justice in a Texas courthouse.

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

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

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

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.”

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

“In the very near future, the act of remembering will become a choice.”

A newspaper writer’s attempt to solve the mystery of a homeless man who claims to be a once-famous boxer.

A chronicle of the 2010 wildfire that burned down 169 homes in Colorado, told via the people who lived through it.

On a press junket in Ecuador, the author investigates the ethics of shopping.

A report from the trial of Ivan Demjanjuk—a.k.a. “The Last Nazi”—who died on March 17.

Twenty-five years later, the deaths of a couple on the Trail remain shocking – and mostly unexplained.

The surreal pageantry of the North Korean Film Festival makes Hollywood look demure.

Playing beer pong with David Axelrod—and other scenes from the lives of young, high-profile aides in the Obama White House.

How do you handle an infestation when you live on the Upper East Side and bedbugs could hurt the value of your apartment? With discretion.

Emmanuel “Toto” Constant, the founder of a barbaric Haitian paramilitary group, vanished from Port-au-Prince and resurfaced as a real estate agent in Queens.

Inside the final weeks of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.