A profile of New York Times obituary writer Alden Whitman.

A profile of the comedian.

An examination of the Minutemen movement and death on the border.

The challenges of establishing a legal marijuana economy in Washington State.

On the sudden death of an up-and-coming rapper.

On recreational genetics, privacy and the new vulnerability of family secrets.

Life on the other side of the laptop.

The tale of the only art exhibit in space.

The behind-the-scenes story of how NFL prospect Michael Sam came out.

On the culture of abuse and coverup at Patrick Henry College.

Andrew Ross Sorkin’s intimate coverage of Wall Street.

The undoing of Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, who resigned in January amidst multiple swirling scandals.

Inside the lucrative, predatory, booming world of subprime car loans.

Unraveling the story of an amnesiac who doesn’t want to know his past.

“You are wondering what kind of people put their house pet in a cat show.”

A profile of Theo Epstein, the architect behind the Chicago Cubs.

“Oh, I think I do overshare, and I sometime marvel that I do it. But it's sort of - in a way, it's my way of trying to understand myself. I don't know. I get it out of my head. It creates community when you talk about private things and you can find other people that have the same things. Otherwise, I don't know - I felt very lonely with some of the issues that I had or history that I had. And when I shared about it, I found that others had it, too.”

On getting a brain implant to slow the progress of Parkinson’s disease.

An appraisal of the Wisconsin congressman’s “green-eyeshade fiscal conservatism.”

The governor of Arkansas, profiled.

The legacy of late hip-hop producer Paul C.

On Nate Silver and the messiness of modern political polling.

A strange, ongoing property battle among the richest of Texans.

The allure of conclusion-shaping and a wunderkind’s fall.