Behind the nation’s closed doors, with YouTube.

Following Muammar Qaddafi’s death in 2011, Libya had hundreds of billions of dollars. This is the story of how it was erased.

A profile of Thelonious Monk.

Life after losing your memory at 22.

Why people stampede, and what can be done to prevent “crowd disasters.”

Two pairs of identical twins mismatched in a hospital happen upon each other in their twenties.

A reporter’s memories from a half-century of covering business.

Creating a new, clean police force in the Ukraine.

What America owes those it takes in.

A profile of Paul Reubens and his subversive alter ego.

Harvey Levin runs a gossip site that operates like an intelligence agency.

When juveniles are found guilty of sexual misconduct, the sex-offender registry can be a life sentence.

The promises and pitfalls of self-tracking devices and apps.

A draft dodger invents a pop music career for himself – without recording any songs.

A visit to the American base in Antarctica, an “open-air museum of prefabricated regret.”

Twenty-seven-year-old Mike Will Made It and the rise of the super-producer.

A story of truth, lies, and an American addiction.

The archive of Mexican architect Luis Barragán has been hidden away for decades. Then an artist decided to make a performance of getting it back.

On London’s new squad of “super-recognizers.”

The last vestiges of a sporting powerhouse.

Inside America’s resurgent paramilitary movement.

The White House after Election Day.

Thinking about the right thing to do, now and in the imaginable future.

Half a century ago, an American commando vanished in the jungles of Laos. In 2008, he reappeared in Vietnam, reportedly alive and well. But nothing was what it seemed.

Reflections on two seasons of loss.