A suddenly haunting profile of Joe Paterno, living legend.

An 11-month investigation ends with a booster, now in prison for a Ponzi scheme, going public with details of how he spent millions on college athletes from 2002 to 2010.

The gambler responsible for a point-shaving scandal at Boston College, now a government witness, offers a nuts-and-bolts explanation of how one goes about fixing college sports.

An infamous article on the social dynamics on the Duke campus—it opens at a foam party thrown by a frat—published at the height of the lacrosse team scandal.

A profile of UNLV coach Jerry Tarkanian, who at the time appeared to be losing his 19-year-long battle with the NCAA.

The case for paying college athletes.

A young man, newly out to his parents, undergoes “ex-gay” therapy.

A rugby legend makes history.

On gay life in Saudi Arabia, where coming out is not an option.

How parents and communities are scrambling to adapt as kids start identifying as gay earlier and earlier.

A 32-year-old lets go.

Getting to the truth in the story Tyler Clementi, a gay student at Rutgers, who committed suicide and was spied on by his roommate Dhaurn Ravi. Shortly after this article was published, Ravi was convicted of hate crimes.

There were so many ways the two planes could have avoided the collision. The odds were so slim. But high above the Amazon in 2006, a combination of technology and human fallibility brought them together.

Life as an air-traffic controller at LaGuardia.

The transcript of a disaster.

The story of Southwest Airlines.

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

On the dream of a transportation system reliant as much on small, safe commuter planes as cars.

The author, two years old when Southern Flight 242 crashed in his backyard, reports on the aftermath, both for his family and for the passengers.

The unpleasant, impossible task of the dealing with the infamous former sports columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times.

As editor-in-chief of Variety, Peter Bart was one of the most powerful people in the entertainment industry. This piece got him suspended.

A profile of Steven T. Florio, then-president and CEO of Condé Nast Publications.

Taibbi goes after New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman for both his politics and his prose.

Ostensibly a review of several releases on the TED Books imprint, this becomes an evisceration of the entire TED-talk culture of pop intellectualism.

A look at the internal culture at Microsoft under Steve Ballmer.

John McCain

John Kerry

Al Gore

Bob Dole

George H.W. Bush

George McGovern

Maintaining order behind bars.

How, and why, a 34-year-old woman named Charity Johnson tricked people all over the country into believing she was still in high school.

On the Cold War and the Space Race.

“Big things have enormous beginnings.”

The story of one of the 74,000 children who come to this country each year alone and undocumented.