A profile of former Liberian president Charles Taylor, who was sentenced to 50 years today after being convicted of committing crimes against humanity.

“Now Pynchon hides in plain sight, on the Upper West Side, with a family and a history of contradictions: a child of the postwar Establishment determined to reject it; a postmodernist master who’s called himself a ‘classicist’; a workaholic stoner; a polymath who revels in dirty puns; a literary outsider who’s married to a literary agent; a scourge of capitalism who sent his son to private school and lives in a $1.7 million prewar classic six.”

In Cyprus with those who lost big by simply depositing their savings with Laiki.

Arno Smit bilked millions out of Tulare County dairy workers (and at least one wealthy widow). Then he disappeared.

A trip to Japan and a glimpse of our automated future.

On children accused of sorcery in Congo.

Why “Father of Botox” Arnold Klein, whose famous clients once included Michael Jackson and Elizabeth Taylor, thinks everyone’s out to get him.

After years of sexual abuse by a neighbor, a teenager takes matters into his own hands.

One man describes his family’s tradition of delivering rhyming couplets at celebrations.

Boko Haram has abducted thousands of children and trained them as soldiers. Four survivors tell their story.

They’re supposed to safeguard pretrial detainees. But America’s oldest law enforcement agency is suffering from a massive dereliction of duty.

How an HIV specialist in Germany is using media law to erase reporting of sexual abuse allegations against him.

Trump came out and took a lunch break, still being mobbed by cameras on the way in and out. On his way back in, I asked him how he would feel about getting picked for a jury. He paused, weighing whether to grace me with a precious sound bite. He turned to me and said, “If it happens, it happens.”

A trip to Turkey for a soccer game between bitter rivals and its accompanying madness.

How Edith Windsor fell in love, got married, and won a landmark case for gay marriage.

Tom Justice was once a cyclist chasing Olympic gold. Then he began using his bike for a much different purpose: robbing banks.

For one writer, “Hot Vax Summer” is a slow climb.

How PCC, once an inmate soccer team and now Brazil’s most notorious prison gang, coordinated seven days of riots throughout São Paulo using mobile phones.

Alberto Nisman accused Iran and Argentina of colluding to bury a terrorist attack. Did it get him killed?

A month-long tour inside L.A.’s cultish world of wellness.