White sharks are hunting along Cape Cod’s beaches. What will it take to keep people safe?

The first entry in the City by City project, on a Baltimore funeral:

My homeboy is interred at a cemetery with a swan lake where we used to take our girls at night because it was a park with a lake and it was just over the line and in the county.

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.

How Wall Street won.

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.

Assessing 40 years of treatment.

My abiding faith in the possibility of self-transformation propelled me from one therapist to the next, ever on the lookout for something that seemed tormentingly out of reach, some scenario that would allow me to live more comfortably in my own skin. For all my doubts about specific tenets and individual psychoanalysts, I believed in the surpassing value of insight and the curative potential of treatment — and that may have been the problem to begin with.

A journalist on the lingering effects of escaping a kidnapping.

A snitch comes clean.

Meet Ben Sherwood, the new head of the Disney/ABC Television Group.