Excerpts from Live From New York, an oral history of SNL.

SNL in its grim 20th season through the lens of first-year (and only-year) cast member Janeane Garofalo.

A pre-30 Rock profile of Tina Fey.

Eight years removed from the show, Murray was at the peak of his box office power and living in a secluded farmhouse in the Hudson River Valley.

How one of the most maligned cast members in SNL history ended up a talking head on Fox News.

A sweeping, honest interview published just before Murphy announced he wouldn’t host the Oscars included his first public comments on SNL in years.

Dispatches revealing the March 1968 murder of 109 Vietnamese civilians during a search-and-destroy mission on a rumored Viet Gong stronghold, often referred to in military circles as Pinkville, actually the village of My Lai.

How the racism of white players and coaches ruined the NFL’s St. Louis Cardinals.

An eyewitness account of Robert Kennedy’s assassination.

On Van Morrison’s grounbreaking album, which was released in November 1968.

From the Apollo 8 flight journal.

The speech Martin Luther King, Jr delivered the day before he died.

A young couple’s story.

On a child diagnosed with autism.

The long, happy, surprising life of 77-year-old Donald Gary Triplett, the first person ever diagnosed with autism.

Should autism be celebrated? A look at the neurodiversity movement.

Autistic individuals have great difficulty breaking into many professions. One exception may be computer programming, where the difficulty of forming emotional attachments and communicating is not necessarily a problem.

As part of his obsessive search for evidence of UFOs, Gary McKinnon worked his way into thousands of government computers. The U.S. charged him with terrorism. Doctors diagnosed him with Asperger’s.

Just over a decade ago, Specter set out to answer this question: How did Lance Armstrong manage the greatest comeback in sports history?

An academic ghostwriter explains his trade.

In 1969, the sports establishment was wrestling with whether to embrace performance-enhancing drugs, decry them, or look the other way.

AshleyMadison.com and the business of infidelity.

The story of the MIT Blackjack Team.

A quiz show scandal and its aftermath, as told by its star.

There are enough stories about steroids in baseball to fill an entire collection. But there’s only one story about steroids and trying to interview a down-and-out Jose Canseco.