The misconception? You do nice things for the people you like and bad things to the people you hate.

The truth? You grow to like people for whom you do nice things and hate people you harm.

“‘I’m going to devote myself full time to securing and then winning a referendum on leaving the EU,’ Daniel Hannan replied. The aide laughed down the line. ‘Good luck with that.’”

When Clark Rockefeller snatched his daughter during a custody dispute, what the D.A. called “the longest con I’ve seen in my professional career” came unraveled, and the trail led to bones buried in a California backyard.

When it’s finished, architect Adrian Smith’s Jeddah Tower will be the tallest building in the world, over a kilometer high. He’s already thinking about pushing past a mile in the air.

The author spends time with the reporters fighting to keep news alive in an age when the forces they cover are working equally hard to destroy them.

The battle to make The Godfather pitted director Francis Ford Coppola against producers including Robert Evans, and the production itself against the real life mob.

Bill Benter did the impossible: He wrote an algorithm that couldn’t lose at the track. Close to a billion dollars later, he tells his story for the first time.

An eight-year campaign to slash the agency’s budget has left it understaffed, hamstrung and operating with archaic equipment. The result: billions less to fund the government. That’s good news for corporations and the wealthy.

Jane de Oliveira set out to protect the world’s largest rain forest from the corporate interests that are burning it to the ground. Then the armed men showed up.

Inside the court battle over trans employment discrimination.

How a Chicago drug organization did business.

A historic Little Rock building and its owner, before and after a catastrophic fire.

A psychological, historical and neurological look at Alcoholics Anonymous.

Driving cross-country in a chemical tanker.

An essay on PTSD.

How six different people live off six different, and wildly varying, incomes.

A conversation about beauty with an 86-year-old mathematician.

How a home-schooled teenager became an oxy kingpin.

JPMorgan Chase’s $6 billion mistake and the woman who took the fall.

On Juliana Buhring, a former cult member who became the first woman to bike around the world.

On keeping the place where ethically raised animals are killed open.

There’s a growing gap between the gun lobby’s leadership and its rank-and-file.

The Obama administration was supposed to fight corporate concentration. In the airline industry, at least, it didn’t work out that way.

William Regnery II spent almost 20 years funding the racist right. It finally paid off.