Joe Ford, car detective, searches the world for stolen rare automobiles on the black market.

Knowing she had the legal right to die helped Paralympic gold medalist Marieke Vervoort live her life.

On the owner’s 20-year evolution from disruptive force to formidable constant.

The battle to make The Godfather pitted director Francis Ford Coppola against producers including Robert Evans, and the production itself against the real life mob.

Bill Benter did the impossible: He wrote an algorithm that couldn’t lose at the track. Close to a billion dollars later, he tells his story for the first time.

An eight-year campaign to slash the agency’s budget has left it understaffed, hamstrung and operating with archaic equipment. The result: billions less to fund the government. That’s good news for corporations and the wealthy.

How a Chicago drug organization did business.

A historic Little Rock building and its owner, before and after a catastrophic fire.

A psychological, historical and neurological look at Alcoholics Anonymous.

How six different people live off six different, and wildly varying, incomes.

A conversation about beauty with an 86-year-old mathematician.

How a home-schooled teenager became an oxy kingpin.

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

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

The bumpy ride from St. Petersburg and Moscow, through a Russia slipping back into the 19th century.

The search for a disgraced ex-LAPD officer bent on killing his former colleagues and their families.

Why has the Palestinian cause failed to produce a Martin Luther King-like leader with a platform based on non-violence?

A look at the artists and writers who drive for a New York cab company. The story that inspired Taxi.

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

The article that kept the New Yorker alive was written by a debutante. Who happened to be married to Irving Berlin.

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

The “Shaggy Defense,” the “Little Man Defense,” and more—live from R. Kelly’s 2008 child pornography trial.

The hot dog black market and the immigrants it exploits.

Inside the campaign to canonize the fire department chaplain who died on September 11.