A week in the world of the Miss America Pageant.

A wandering food writer goes home.

The demise of a once-great newspaper.

A conversation about beauty with an 86-year-old mathematician.

How sunken treasure and a sibling rivalry led Charles and John Deane to invent modern deep-sea diving.

Not all that long ago, as the editor in chief of Gawker.com, Daulerio was among the most influential and feared figures in media. Now the forty-two-year-old is unemployed, his bank has frozen his life savings of $1,500, and a $1,200-per-month one-bedroom is all he can afford. He's renting here, he says, to be near the counselors and support network he has come to rely on lately.

Memories of a scorching three days that left 739 dead.

A broke agent hustles on the extreme fringe of pro basketball.

A trip to learn about Myanmar’s traditional sport, chinlone, goes awry.

A physicist remembers working on the Manhattan Project.

Attending a meeting of the Continental Drift Club in Berlin.

Investigating the unsolved murder of a former NBA player.

Displaced from the Marshall Islands, residents build a new life in Oklahoma.

“They played a game of chess with our lives and we lost.”

How a detachment of U.S. Army soldiers smoked out the original Ku Klux Klan.

Two days with a broken-hearted Tom Hiddleston.

On the decades-long quest for a zero-calorie sweetener.

After oil was discovered on their Oklahoma reservation, the Osage Nation became the richest people per capita in the world. Then they began to be murdered off mysteriously. In 1924 the nascent FBI sent a team of undercover agents, including a Native American, to the Osage reservation.

A profile of Damon Lawner and his mansion.

A day with ESPN’s NFL scoopmaster.

A profile of Rei Kawakubo, an artist of few words who changed women’s fashion.

Solo hiking the Appalachian trail as a black woman.

The Constitution offers two main paths for removing a President from office.

A profile of Whole Foods CEO John Mackey.

How an economic boom and deep gender inequality have created a new industry.