On the plight of the modern gypsy in Europe.

On Rupert Murdoch and the tabloid culture he created in the U.K.

Inside the cult appeal of the hit convenience mart/gas station Wawa.

On the rise and fall of India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

A report from campus after the rape allegations against members of the lacrosse team.

The inside story of Pennsylvania’s governor and the fall of Joe Paterno.

The author on his mother’s deteriorating health and the “price of longevity.”

On the ouster of CEO Janet Robinson and the company’s financial woes.

The president of Kiribati goes to Norway to bear witness to climate change.

On the coming age of domestic drones.

The rise of anonymous group suicide in Japan.

The man for whom the term “jet-setter” was coined left a bitterly fractured estate.

A jury foreman on the messy effectiveness of the American justice system.

On the (disputed) origins of the Huffington Post.

The decline of the American autopsy and what it says about modern medicine.

A profile of the Time Man of the Year for 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The looming collapse of agriculture on the Great Plains.

What American towns named Paris can tell us about the French.

Inside the fall of Village Voice Media’s backpage.com.

The mass deportation of the Siberian Kalmyk people by Stalin still reverberates.

Apples, plastic bags, teeth. The author’s letter to his unborn child.

A child genius living in poverty, her mother, and the benefactor who became their tormenter.

Projectionist provocateur Robin Bell lights up the night.

On Graham Greene, the master of “ethical ambivalence.”

How a cartel invented and marketed the modern diamond.