How LA-style gang life migrated to the slums of San Salvador.

An immigrant from Lebanon, a hair-cutting fortune, and the dream of building a castle on an island in British Columbia.

The author was living in a friend’s basement after a bad breakup, unable to eat. Then he had lunch with Jacques Pépin.

Susan Hawk was the first woman elected as Dallas County district attorney. She also suffers from depression.

Why The Undefeated, a site announced more than two years ago, still hasn’t launched.

An attempt to figure out how the Times columnist came to care more about personal morality than politics.

On the history of political polls, which have become more influential and less reliable over time.

In a remote corner of Romania, neighbors kill each other over tiny strips of land.

How a disgruntled group of University of Miami football fans got the head coach fired by flying insulting airplane banners high over Sun Life Stadium.

Inside one woman’s often conflicted world.

The real story of a fabricator.

On the fear-mongering history of sex education.

A man in a small town in India builds local power by owning the only computer in his village.

Mamoru Samuragochi’s story turned out to be too good to be true.

Joseph Mitchell used composites in his non-fiction, invented characters and added flourishes to his facts. Does it matter?

The process of claiming a loved one’s body after a massacre at a Kenyan university.

One man’s quest to witness the “Bison Cull” in Yellowstone National Park.

Lessons learned about white-collar crime from an economist turned bagel salesman whose business relied entirely on the honor system.

A profile of the “acrobatic genius of the trapeze”:

As he spoke, he looked up at the pipes and swings in the arena ceiling. A mechanic was working on the rigging, but Tito spoke thoughtfully, for he seemed to be seeing something else. "Sometimes I see movies of myself in the air and I say, 'Jesus, how can I do that?' I wonder who do I think I am ... but, yes, I do admire myself in films sometimes as if I am watching another person. I have sometimes dreamed my tricks at night, you know, and then tried to master them from the dream."

An investigative look at the killing of Trayvon Martin.

On board the Perl Whirl 2000, a conference of hard-coding geeks on a luxury cruise ship.

The Penn State sex abuse scandal as told through a father, a son and “Victim 1.”

On the Mexican drug cartel accused of laundering money with race horses.

How the author became tangled up with an international con man who may or may not have murdered several people.

How a group of men with nicknames like “Emperor” and “Spear Carrier” tipped the balance in South Sudan’s fight for independence.