“Be careful. The toe you stepped on yesterday may be connected to the ass you have to kiss today.”

A profile of the late Buddy Cianci, who was twice forced to resign as mayor of Providence after being convicted of felonies.

To understand Cam Newton, you need to go to a small church 45 minutes outside of Atlanta called Holy Zion Center of Deliverance and hear his dad preach.

The transcript of chats between Silk Road boss Ross Ulbricht and a man he believes to be a Hell’s Angel who agrees to supply “hitters” to carry out 5 assassinations.

The corruption and cruelty of the state’s response to suspected jihadis and their families seem likely to lead to the resurgence of the terror group.

She moved to Cape Cod to escape the glitzy Manhattan world she born into. The only witness to her murder was her 2-year-old daughter. Everyone she knew, it seemed, was a suspect.

No one can seem to agree on his surviving merits. He wrote like an angel, the consensus goes, except when he was writing like a malfunctioning sex robot attempting to administer cunnilingus to his typewriter.

A socially starved world might just be the best thing ever to happen to the private club empire — which is about to IPO.

How a Mossad agent’s desperate bid to jumpstart his career led to the exposure of two top Hezbollah plants.

A trip to the French island of Réunion to report on a bloody battle between surfers and sharks.

Erik Weihenmayer has climbed Mount Everest, raced across the Moroccan desert, and is about to kayak the Grand Canyon’s deadliest rapids—all without being able to see.

“More than a café, the shop is a carpentered-together, ingenious mechanism—a specialized tool—designed to keep Carrelli tethered to herself.”

A former student and high school coach travel to California to kidnap the coach’s daughter, an adult film actress.

How a herbalist who used to swim naked with Allen Ginsberg became one of conservative talk radio’s most vicious—and listened to—hosts.

On America’s relationship with the right to bear arms, from the Founding Fathers to the Black Panthers and the Ku Klux Klan.

Skyrocketing prices for yarchagumba, a rare fungus prized as an aphrodisiac, has led to Nepali villagers to turf wars—and possibly murder.

The N.S.A. claims it needs access to all our phone records. But is that the best way to catch a terrorist?

Everyone just wants to know if he’s going to the football game.

From Hong Kong to Bangkok to the Golden Triangle, the author searches for something everyone says no longer exists: an opium den.

A psychological theory emerges to explain why young Americans are taking a while to grow up.

The life of Kimi Peck, a former screenwriter, once married to Gregory Peck’s son, who turned to “saving” stray dogs.

Australian scientists Pat and Peter Shaw always planned to take their lives, together. After saying goodbye to their daughters last October, they did.

“Seeing a partial eclipse bears the same relation to seeing a total eclipse as kissing a man does to marrying him.”

“The job is to be enough of a personality that they want to know what you think.”

Laura Levis did everything she could to save herself when an asthma attack began. How could she have been left to die just outside the emergency room?

It’s dangerous to blame the decline of one species on a single predator. We humans like to do it anyway.