Alfred Dellentash Jr. chartered the Rolling Stones in private jets while smuggling planeloads of Pablo Escobar’s drugs on the side.

Mementos left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the man in charge of cataloging them.

How a disgraced Civil War general became one of the best-selling novelists in American history.

A look at the Mexican drug wars from the point of view of a narco’s mistress in Juárez.

On the blurry ethical lines in the part-time Texas state legislature, where politicians and CEO’s are one and the same.

How the foreclosure crisis ignited a new form of activism in Chicago’s vacant homes.

Memories of living with the writer Andrew Lytle late in his life.

When the best three months of your life are “called three of the uglier months in the recent history of the National Football League.”

A father’s life, one year after the death of his three daughters in a fire.

With abortion access limited in many states, should some home abortions still be a crime?

How the government cleared the streets in advance of the 1988 Olympics.

The story of Deso Dogg, a German rapper-turned-ISIS propagandist who may or may not have been killed in an airstrike.

Colossal corruption. Political chaos. The worst recession in its history. How a once-booming nation fell.

A decade in the life of America’s wiliest coyote.

How Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger and his Airbus A320 landed safely in the Hudson.

The Southern Baptist church, which has its origins in a split over slavery, at an election-year crossroads.

On the shootings, and the response, in Baton Rouge, Falcon Heights, and Dallas this summer.

Fast cars and bad decisions in a race through Southern Europe known as the “Gumball 3000.”

“In 1981, with a computer built into my shoe, I walked into a Las Vegas casino and beat the house.”

An animal's corpse disrupts a humdrum workday in this early story by Eleanor Catton, the winner of this year's Man Booker Prize.

A profile of former Rutgers basketball coach Mike Rice, who was fired in April after a video of him berating players went viral.

An interview with a Mexican-born American attorney who defended and eventually smuggled for the cartels in the ’90s.

How the Syrian president stays in power.

A triple homicide, the alleged involvement of a Boston Marathon bombing suspect, and those caught up in the FBI’s ongoing investigation.

The author gets a crash course in health care pricing after having his urethra fixed.