An oral history of James Brown, from Macon to the top.

On Sam Jain and Daniel Sundin, the fugitive kings of scareware.

On the tangled early careers of Jonathan Franzen, David Foster Wallace, Mary Karr and Jeffrey Eugenides.

The Starbucks-fueled saga of how Jim Romenesko, beloved journalism blogger, took an early retirement.

After the United States demanded the extradition of a drug lord, a bloodletting ensued.

A step-by-step proposal for fixing the broken economics of big-time college sports.

Con man turned pastor turned con man; a profile of a serial scammer and the movie he tried to make about himself.

A reporter makes it his mission to track down all 42 members of a platoon after their service in Iraq.

In Michele Bachmann’s home district evangelicals have pushed anti-gay policies to the school board. After a rash of suicides, teens are fighting back.

Pavel Galitsky, 100 years old, blogger and Skyper, survivor of 15 years in Stalin’s Siberian Kolyma mines.

“In the very near future, the act of remembering will become a choice.”

A newspaper writer’s attempt to solve the mystery of a homeless man who claims to be a once-famous boxer.

A chronicle of the 2010 wildfire that burned down 169 homes in Colorado, told via the people who lived through it.

On a press junket in Ecuador, the author investigates the ethics of shopping.

A report from the trial of Ivan Demjanjuk—a.k.a. “The Last Nazi”—who died on March 17.

A profile of the eccentric Gene Weingarten, the only person to twice win the Pulitzer for feature writing.

The rise of the long-haul trucker/serial killer, as excerpted from Ginger Strand’s book Killer on the Road.

A Yale student on why nearly a quarter of her classmates will end up working for Wall Street.

The international battle over 17 tons of coins discovered by an American deep-sea treasure hunting company.

A tech reporter tells the story of his ruined digital life.

The truncated, violent lives of Richard Matt and David Sweat before their prison escape.

Exploring the possibility that injecting the old with the blood of the young can reverse the aging process.

A town ruined by the chemical C8, an ingredient in the making of Teflon.

Twenty-five years later, the deaths of a couple on the Trail remain shocking – and mostly unexplained.

The photographs that Caesar, a Syrian military photographer, smuggled out of Assad’s death dungeons.