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

Lessons learned about Washington from investigating how the “grand bargain” fell apart.

On Jenny Craig’s European expansion and how dieting differs in France and the States.

On the road with three high school show choirs and a dream.

The challenge of finding answers about some abandoned cremains.

What happened when one of San Francisco’s most notorious underworld bosses tried to go clean.

Kelvin Villanueva had lived in America for 15 years. He had four kids. He had a job. Then he was stopped for a broken taillight.

After his daughter died in a terrorist attack, Stephen Flatow won an unprecedented judgment against her killers. Then he had to figure out how to actually collect.

The magician who spent his life debunking spiritualists and exposing con men.

The inside story of how Yahoo’s C.E.O. lost her way.

A refugee survives the Rwandan genocide and finds a future in Atlanta.

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

Seventy years after three of the bloodiest days in U.S. history, the battle continues to bring the missing men home.

Finding the thread of depression in the personal history of a friend’s suicide.

Beatrice Munyenyezi told her New Hampshire neighbors that she was refugee from the Rwandan genocide. Half of that was true.

Playing beer pong with David Axelrod—and other scenes from the lives of young, high-profile aides in the Obama White House.

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

A mission in Baghdad to let a photojournalist get a shot of an insurgent corpse ends up getting a Marine killed.

John Friend, who founded a new school of yoga, says the practice should be about both exercise and spirituality. Oh, and making money.

A rare co-mingling between Hasidic Jews and their Crown Heights neighbors within Brooklyn’s ‘Basil Pizza & Wine Bar.’

The story that certified Gehry as a genius and the Guggenheim Bilbao as the building of the late 20th century.

A reporter heads to Istanbul, where Iverson is playing minor league hoops in a 3,200-seat arena and hanging out at T.G.I. Friday’s.

The revival of a landmark 1921 musical opens a door on the deep and twisted roots of black performance in America.

A murder involving one of the India’s celebrity couples has mesmerized the country and exposed some of its darkest fears.

Fifty years ago, rodeo man Bob Gimlin was a Bigfoot skeptic. Then he and a friend caught the creature on tape.