How a Mexican drug cartel makes its billions.

The story of a young man killed in Juárez.

How a middle-class jock from a Texas border town became La Barbie, one of the most ruthless and feared cartel leaders in Mexico.

The author travels to Mexico to meet a retired assassin and kidnapper, now himself a target of the faceless cartels that once employed him.

A profile of the Mexican newsweekly, a “lone voice” in reporting on the narcos.

Cracking down on corruption in Tijuana.

The struggle to put the drug war into context.

A jailhouse interview with Steve Washak, who made millions selling “natural male enhancement” pills.

On Ambien and the search for the next blockbuster insomnia drug.

On the Adderall days of college.

New medicines can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Are they worth it? A look at how a pair of pharmaceutical companies set their prices.

The pharmaceutical quest to give women a better sex life.

During the last decade, more than 1,500 Americans died after accidentally taking too much of a drug renowned for its safety: acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol.

Fifty years ago, birth-control pills gave women control of their bodies, while making it easy to forget their basic biology—until, in some cases, it’s too late.

The story of Christopher and Jeffrey George, the twin proprietors of a pain clinic empire.

Undercover at a dealership to learn the tricks of the trade, of which there are many.

Undercover in the online-shipping industry.

Undercover in a women’s insane asylum. On an island. In 1887.

Undercover as a Juggalette.

Undercover going through airport security.

Undercover with Afghanistan’s drug-smuggling border police.

Undercover in high school.

An oral history of the oral history master.

A classic piece of participatory journalism, a genre Plimpton basically invented, on his very brief tenure as quarterback of the Detroit Lions.

On Plimpton and the founders of The Paris Review.

An interview years in the making.

A father and his 9-year-old daughter watch Harvard play Yale in football.

Plimpton’s son on his dad’s signature style.

In January 1966, the month In Cold Blood was published, Truman Capote sat down with Plimpton to discuss the new art form he liked to call “creative journalism.”

A profile of a previously unknown rookie pitcher for the Mets who dropped out of Harvard, made a spiritual quest to Tibet, and somewhere along the line figured out how to throw a baseball much, much faster than anyone else on Earth.

A profile of a young Dylan and the early ’60s folk scene.

”I don’t want anybody to be hung-up … especially over me, or anything I do.”

The making of Blonde on Blonde in Nashville.

On the visionary architects who, along with an extremely helpful tax break, gave birth to the American mall.

A writer tries to make sense of a national landmark.

Over the last five years, so-called “sweepstakes cafes,” known in Las Vegas and elsewhere as “casinos,” have opened in malls from Florida to Massachusetts. On the law-bending rise of a $10 billion industry.

The soap opera of an off-brand mall in West Houston.

How Hollister employs the dark art of “immersive retail” to bring the allure of the mall to its flagship store in New York.

Spending time with the Tonya Harding Fan Club in the wake of the assault on Nancy Kerrigan.