A chronicle of the 2010 wildfire that burned down 169 homes in Colorado, told via the people who lived through it.

On a press junket in Ecuador, the author investigates the ethics of shopping.

A report from the trial of Ivan Demjanjuk—a.k.a. “The Last Nazi”—who died on March 17.

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

The rise of the long-haul trucker/serial killer, as excerpted from Ginger Strand’s book Killer on the Road.

A Yale student on why nearly a quarter of her classmates will end up working for Wall Street.

The international battle over 17 tons of coins discovered by an American deep-sea treasure hunting company.

A tech reporter tells the story of his ruined digital life.

The truncated, violent lives of Richard Matt and David Sweat before their prison escape.

Exploring the possibility that injecting the old with the blood of the young can reverse the aging process.

A town ruined by the chemical C8, an ingredient in the making of Teflon.

Twenty-five years later, the deaths of a couple on the Trail remain shocking – and mostly unexplained.

The photographs that Caesar, a Syrian military photographer, smuggled out of Assad’s death dungeons.

Testimonies about the Soviet war in Afghanistan, reported by the 2015 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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

The disappearance of the Ghost Boat and its 243 passengers off the Libyan coast.

How one woman’s sexual assault by four University of Oregon football players in 1980 unwittingly led to the state’s expansive free speech protections.

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

A report from the border of ISIS territory in Iraq, where civilians are battling to survive.

“There are critics who see their job as to be on the side of the artist, or in a state of imaginative sympathy or alliance with the artist. I think it's important for a critic to be populist in the sense that we’re on the side of the public. I think one of the reasons is, frankly, capitalism. Whether you’re talking about restaurants or you’re talking about movies, you’re talking about large-scale commercial enterprises that are trying to sell themselves and market themselves and publicize themselves. A critic is, in a way, offering consumer advice.”

Ten stories on guns, ranging from competitive shooting, to girl gangs in Chicago, to the sisters and mothers of mass shooting victims.

In his own final days, a Right to Die activist tells the story of his secret, illegal assisted-suicide service.

Five of the sixteen women speak.

Visiting Disney World during times of loss and sorrow.

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