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.

Undercover as a student at Phoenix University, the largest for-profit higher education company in the country and the second-largest enroller of students (behind the SUNY system), where only 12 percent of first-time students graduate and the ad budget accounts for 30 percent of overall spending.

“The specific dissonance of Trumpism—advocacy for discriminatory, even cruel, policies combined with vehement denials that such policies are racially motivated—provides the emotional core of its appeal. It is the most recent manifestation of a contradiction as old as the United States, a society founded by slaveholders on the principle that all men are created equal.”

A few miles north of San Francisco, off the coast of Sausalito, is Richardson Bay, a saltwater estuary where roughly one hundred people live out of sight from the world. Known as anchor-outs, they make their homes a quarter mile from the shore, on abandoned and unseaworthy vessels, doing their best, with little or no money, to survive.

This presentation was shown to potential recruits for the new Maven SI venture, and it details exactly how the people now in charge of Sports Illustrated plan on turning it into the sort of volume-driven content farm that ruled the web a dozen or so tweaks of the Google algorithm ago.

In the wake of revolution, Libyans envision their future.

A profile of the “smart person’s” astrologer, and the people who believe in horopscopes.

The enduring disadvantage of getting locked up.

The story of a whale attack.

A son tries to make sense of his mother’s end.

An account of Yukon Quest, Alaska’s grueling, thousand-mile dog sled race.

The history of blue jeans, “America’s greatest contribution to the global closet.”

A portrait of a new nation.

A profile of the almost-president.

The possibilities and pitfalls of massive open online courses (MOOCs).

The Yale professor suspected of murdering his student.

A portrait of the Somali capital.

The best women’s tennis player of all-time opens up.

A profile of Russell Baze, the winningest jockey in American history.

Deep inside the world of Cartoon Network’s most popular show.

Tourism at the site of the worst nuclear disaster in history.

On police brutality in New York and the race riots of 1964.

The laundry wars of Silicon Valley.