On long-distance grief.

A found diary holds a love story—and a mystery.

The double life of Aaron Hernandez.

“Over the years, it’s been hard to get male movie stars to be in a movie if a woman’s the lead, where a great, great movie star, a woman, will be in a movie where the man’s the lead. So there’s just not parity there, we’re not on equal footing.”

Tom Wicker was without a notebook on November 22, 1963. Instead, reported Gay Talese, he “scribbled his observations and facts across the back of a mimeographed itinerary of Kennedy’s two-day tour of Texas.”

Here’s the 3,700-word masterpiece he filed.

Judge Donna Scott Davenport oversees a juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, Tennessee, with a staggering history of jailing children. She said kids must face consequences, which rarely seem to apply to her or the other adults in charge.

Life on the other side of the laptop.

Decades later, U.S.-backed dictator Hissène Habré faces justice.

On the campaign trail with Richard Nixon.

On Hillary Clinton’s policy team.

Freedom, the GOP, and a rhesus macaque on the loose.

How a team of 40 engineers helped reelect Barack Obama.

Inside the DIY world of synthetic drugs.

An overachiever on what he did and didn’t learn at Princeton.

The story of the manhunt.

Embedded with the “hotshots” trying to battle forest fires.

Some passions are more dangerous than others.

One woman’s ghastly dollhouse dioramas turned crime scene investigation into a science.

A talented young chef loses control.

A grieving father looks for answers.

Inside a high-profile Hollywood child custody battle.

Retracing Hunter S. Thompson’s steps 40 years later.

Woodward and Bernstein’s other anonymous sources.

The aftermath of a sudden death.