A look inside Google’s Ground Truth.

Diagnosed with a rare blood disease, the author reflects on illness and addiction.

What it’s like to be Enzyte’s “Smiling Bob,” and other tales of acting as a product’s public face.

How a Tulsa preacher used direct mail to create the American religious right.

A week in the author’s life when it became impossible to control the course of events.

Is Bryan Saunders a drug-inspired outsider genius, or just in need of intervention?

A visit to the hotel North Korea starved to build, still unfinished after breaking ground in 1987.

In 1945, a fire tore through the home of George and Jennie Sodder. Four children escaped; five vanished.

An investigation into the death of a sacred white buffalo and the man who raised it.

A bookkeeper’s $9 million swindle, her lavish second life, and the boss who didn’t notice.

Steven Cohen, troubled founder a $14 billion hedge fund, has an eye for modern art.

A history of the Hollywood publicity racket.

How governments and private companies have engaged in digital arms trading by building a global black market for ‘zero day’ hacks.

Searching for answers 40 years after a Brooklyn man threw acid in the face of his 4-year-old neighbor.

A profile of former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford, who is running for office four years after his affair with an Argentine journalist became national news.

A generation that has seen inestimable violence comes of age in Juarez.

Robert Berman was a passionate and polarizing English teacher at the Horace Mann School. He is also accused of sexually abusing many of his devoted students.

A profile of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

The outing of a failed writer who spent years anonymously grinding axes on Wikipedia.

In a Turkish hotel, veterans of the Libyan Revolution meet with their fractured Syrian counterparts to transfer know-how and heavy weaponry.

Twenty-six years after he was wrongfully imprisoned for the murder of his wife, Michael Morton sees the real killer brought to justice in a Texas courthouse.

On Ephemerisle, a “floating festival of radical self-reliance,” and other attempts at creating an island utopia.

How a secretive Israel billionaire seized control of an untapped iron ore deposit beneath one of Africa’s poorest countries.

A profile of lawyer Jacques Vergès, who died yesterday after decades spent defending war criminals, terrorists and dictators.

The lost dream of Korleone Young, a high school basketball star who skipped college and flamed out after only one NBA season.