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

On the promise of 23-year-old Nicholas Cleves, who died in the bike path attack in New York.

How the GOP took control of state politics in Alabama, leaving black lawmakers—and their constituents—powerless.

Going on a fishing trip with the secretary of the interior.

A profile of John McCain during the 2000 presidential race.

What do you do when you hear that Mike Tyson is opening a weed resort in the middle of the California desert? You go investigate.

When a spring breaker goes missing, a seasoned investigator uncovers devil worship and a sinister cult at the heart of the drug trade.

The dark secret life of The Great Zucchini, Washington D.C.’s most sought after children’s birthday party entertainer.

In the north Bronx, a small group of elite Ethiopian runners struggle to survive. The persecution they fled was far more harrowing.

To deal with climate change and power the cars of tomorrow, we’ll have to solve the cobalt problem.

For decades, thousands of people came to Trinidad, Colorado, to have gender confirmation surgery done by Dr. Stanley Biber. This excerpt from Going To Trinidad tells his—and one of his patient’s—poignant stories.

Caitlin Curran was fired from WNYC for attending an Occupy Wall Street protest. The author explains why her boss was wrong.

How the daily e-mail from Mike Allen, Politico’s star reporter, has become a morning ritual for Washington’s elite.

Bruce Fleming is known for being a chauvinistic, egoistic loudmouth–but firing him has been a lot harder than the Pentagon thought.

For decades, flying saucers were a punch line. Then the U.S. government got over the taboo.

“Four mornings a week Murray Kempton, the Huckleberry Finn of American journalism, climbs onto his bicycle and pedals out into the world in search of what may be there. For more than thirty years he has been finding things other writers have not even thought to look for, and he has done so with a compelling humanity that is rare not just in his profession but in the human race as well. I have followed him as he made his regular rounds, and I have eaten at his table, and I am not all that certain that he is not the greatest man I have ever met.”

Norma McCorvey, the “Jane Roe” plaintiff in Roe v. Wade, who left Pro-Choice activism for born-again Christianity and a strange life of financial opportunism, died this week.

During his 35 years as a member of the Church of Scientology, Oscar-winning writer and director Paul Haggis went “all the way to the top.” The story of why he left, and what happened once he did.

Throughout the ’50s and ’60s, media outlets including the New York Times and CBS News provided the CIA with information and cover for agents. Then everyone decided to pretend it had never happened.

The surprisingly difficult work of building bots that can walk.

The story of a New York City bar and its owner, Old John McSorley.

Inside the business of manufacturing online product reviews.

A profile of The Wachowskis.