On then-agent, now-congressman Michael Grimm and what happens when an F.B.I. informant turns out to be a con man.

From a small Ohio town to Afghanistan, a portrait of the perpetrator of a massacre.

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

On L.A.’s Homeboy Industries, which offers former felons—including at least one disgraced CEO—the chance to work.

What would drive a man to stand outside the Vatican embassy nearly every day for 14 years?

When Elysian Brewing sold itself to Big Beer, it set off a revolt among Seattle craft beer enthusiasts.

Michael Phelps returns to his Olympic training after a 45-day stint at The Meadows.

The story of a transplant from a 26-year-old bike mechanic to a 41-year-old fireman with severe burns.

Why “the legal equivalent of outer space” continues to exist, fifteen years after 9/11.

When massive ships sink, burn, fall apart or get stuck, their owners call Nick Sloane. His job: figure out how to save as much as he can.

How the author writes best-selling non-fiction books without the ability to leave her house.

America’s biggest for-profit foster care agency has a history of abuse, neglect, and even deaths to account for.

A correspondence school for writers turns out to be a sham. This piece forced it into bankruptcy.

Nowadays, the young and privileged view un- and under-paid assistantships as the road to a successful creative career. Are they deluding themselves?

From Stefani Joanne Germanotta to Lady Gaga: the self-invented, manufactured, accidental, totally on-purpose creation of the world’s biggest pop star.

The city of Boston, the Tea Party movement, and the rightful heir to the American Revolution.

How a celebrated American artist was forced to trade his multimillion-dollar collection for a job selling donuts.

A woman posing as a non-profit worker kidnaps a formerly homeless pregnant woman and tries to claim her baby. [PART 2]

Less than a week after Katrina, Michael Lewis goes home to New Orleans.

The mother of a child born with a deformed brain responds, heartbreakingly, to an academic study claiming that people are happier without kids.

If you walk into New York’s best restaurants without a reservation, what does it take to get a table?

A writer struggles to defend his arbor vitae trees from a pack of hungry deer—“an episode of great vexation and buffoonery.”

Taibbi on the Tea Party. “After lengthy study of the phenomenon, I’ve concluded that the whole miserable narrative boils down to one stark fact: They’re full of shit.”

Four years after a disastrous MTV performance had led him to avoid the public, Rose was back on stage.

James Frey is starting a publishing company, paying young writers (very poorly) to reverse engineer a Twilight-esque hit.