On the post-shooting life of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.

A breakdown of the early 80s homeless epidemic.

The psych hospital life of John Hinckley Jr., Ronald Reagan’s would-be assassin.

A year in the life of an oxycodone addict.

A doctor reveals widespread organ harvesting of prisoners in China.

How the town of Moberly, population 14,000, got conned.

On the attempted hijacking of a FedEx flight by a FedEx employee.

The autonomous car of the future is here:

I was briefly nervous when Urmson first took his hands off the wheel and a synthy woman’s voice announced coolly, “Autodrive.” But after a few minutes, the idea of a computer-driven car seemed much less terrifying than the panorama of indecision, BlackBerry-fumbling, rule-flouting, and other vagaries of the humans around us—including the weaving driver who struggles to film us as he passes.

"Look, people's lives are people's lives, and some of them can't cope or be as organized as some of us might like. But it's only in the area of sex that we get involved in the ethics of promoting risk-taking, the idea that we should withhold information or devices because we don't want people to need them. Would you make the same argument about cholesterol drugs? Saying, If we give people a drug that will reduce cholesterol, they won't be as likely to exercise and eat properly like they really should?"

Leonard Cohen’s 2 A.M. set at the disastrous Isle of Wight festival, 1970.

A history of erasure as literature.

A profile of the world’s most notorious weapons trafficker.

Joining the water company’s “flushermen” to tour London’s sewers.

On the empire built by “Painter of Light” Thomas Kinkade.

The author of Truly Tasteless Jokes unmasks herself.

A profile of Univision’s Jorge Ramos.

On the difficult, “god-like” decisions faced by parents of transgender children.

The education of a campaign manager.

The people behind San Francisco’s Summer of Love.

A profile of Chief Justice John Roberts.

An oral history of WFAN.

The triple life of G-Rock: upscale house painter, lifelong Crip, FBI informant.

The spiritual union of Johnny Cash and Rick Rubin.