A profile of Suge Knight, 29 and the C.E.O. of Death Row Records, before the deaths of Tupac and Notorious B.I.G.

The financial industry’s pursuit of profits from mobile-home communities is undermining one of the country’s largest sources of affordable housing.

A ragtag band of pirate-Jihadists grab Americans from a diving resort in the Phillipines and lead them on an odyssey through the jungles of an archipelago with the competing interests of the Phillipines’ Navy and Army, the U.S. Military, and the C.I.A. thwarting their rescue.

The cost of Alzheimer’s.

On the public schools of Detroit.

The racist foundation of Oregon.

On the shifting nature of time.

Selling the story of disinformation.

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

Ten years ago, a man moved to Marsing, Idaho. He had a strange accent and didn't know much about cattle. The folks in Marsing were a little skeptical at first, but when he built a house and started a family, he earned his neighbors' acceptance. Last February, while buying hay, he was cornered by federal agents and arrested for violent crimes tied to the Boston Mob. And the town wondered: Who the hell is Jay Shaw?

The changing landscape of the Lower Ninth Ward in post-Katrina New Orleans:

There have been sightings of armadillos, coyotes, owls, hawks, falcons and even a four-foot alligator, drinking from a leaky fire hydrant. Rats have been less of a problem lately because of the stray cats and the birds of prey. But it’s not just animals that emerge from the weeds.

The challenges of growing up in the modern world as the reincarnation of a famous Tibetan lama.

On the enduring political influence and entrenched racism of the Greek system at the University of Alabama.

On the origins of The Village People.

On the genesis of the It Gets Better Project.

The year of the revolution, from behind the camera.

Taking the measure of the president, with a view to history.

The Mouth of the South is leading a relatively quiet life.

The events leading up to the botched execution of Clayton Lockett.

The plight of the uninsured in a red state.

The unsolved mystery of the soldier who died in the watchtower.

The architecture of the modern web poses grave threats to humanity.

Elias Pompa is the lone deputy in one of the poorest counties in Texas. He is also at the center of the U.S. border crisis.

On the 1934 lynching of Claude Neal, and the Florida town that kept the identity of those responsible a secret.