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

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

A profile of the actress.

The rise and fall of fraudster John DeLorean.

Inside the dysfunctional world of the Los Angeles Lakers.

Madewell’s authenticity problem, written by the great-grandson of the company’s founder.

Today’s South Asian Southern chefs stand on the shoulders of the late Raji Jallepalli.

Will the literature of the suburbs be written on TikTok?

On the photographer Catherine Opie who has “made a study of the freeways of Los Angeles, lesbian families, surfers, Tea Party gatherings, America’s national parks, the houses of Beverly Hills, teen-age football players, the personal effects of Elizabeth Taylor, the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, Boy Scouts, her friends, mini-malls, and tree stumps.”

On the strengths and limitations of the Republican frontrunner:

“The Mormon’s never going to win the who-do-you-want-to-have-a-beer-with contest,” concedes one adviser, while another acknowledges, “He’s never had the experience of sitting in a bar, and like, talking.”

A look at the legislative lobbying efforts of Michael Bloomberg’s $7 billion-per-year company. While the mayor has no specific day-to-day role at Bloomberg LP, he maintains “the type of involvement that he believes is consistent with his being the majority shareholder.”

On the nature of violence.

When my brother was twelve, I found six mice nailed to the wall of the abandoned tree house in the woods near our apartment. He spent a lot of time there. It seemed to me the little mouse faces were frozen in agony. As though they’d been alive when he’d hammered the nails through them.

On the start of the high school football season in Odessa, Texas. An adaptation published alongside the release of Bissinger’s 1990 book of the same name, which led to the movie and the show.

The story of one of the 74,000 children who come to this country each year alone and undocumented.

Inside the stronghold of Commander Pigeon, “collector of lost and exiled men.”

Tales of mayhem on the set of The Canyons.

The conspiracy theories surrounding the 1931 death of Hitler’s niece and object of affection.

Making sense of the CEO’s very public tour of America, which feels like a political campaign minus the politics.

A 7-part investigation into the true nature of Long Island politics, through the story of street tough-turned-power broker Gary Melius.

The life of Robert Earl Hughes, who at more than 1,000 lbs. was named largest man on earth by the Guinness Book of World Records.

Can one of the nation’s great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour?

Lance Stephenson, the latest in a long line of Coney Island basketball prodigies, carries a burden none of his predecessors did: restoring New York City’s reputation as the hoops capital of the world.

Bruce Wisan received one of the toughest assignments ever thrust upon an accountant: to take control of the assets (and by proxy, followers) of the polygamist Mormon breakaway sect, F.L.D.S., after their prophet, Warren Jeffs, went on the lam and their compound was raided.

Zacharias Holmes grew up idolizing the anarchy of ‘Jackass.’ Then he took his idols’ vision of chaos to a whole other level. This is the story of Zackass, the Most Self-Destructive Man in America.