The drunken genius of Harry Nilsson, the American Beatle.

The capitalist evangelism of Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In feminist manifesto.

The demise of an NFL player.

The rise and fall of “Rock Around the Clock” singer Bill Haley.

The story of the Abbottabad raid, in detail.

On the moral failure of über-wealthy do-gooders.

The 1900 death of Fritz and the battle to define his legacy.

Growing up Afghan in the era of the Afghanistan War.

The technological future of the struggling porn industry.

The flawed science that helped convict a Tennessee man of murder.

The role of black dolls in American culture.

The fake cops of Santa Monica.

The outsized legacy of the emo rapper who always said he would die young.

The story of pianist Bill Evans and his lifelong obsession with a single song.

A profile of the billionaire influencer.

The story of ‘Kai the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker.’

The fall of billionaire Henry Nicholas, co-founder and CEO of microchip-maker Broadcom, who lost his job and his marriage amidst allegations of drug use, cooking the books, and building a secret party lair beneath the house he shared with family.

The shoot-first-and-ask-questions-later culture of the 101st Airborne Division, an execution of captured Iraqi prisoners, and how far up the chain of command responsibility lies.

In the 1980s some of the world’s most powerful institutions were taken in by stories, begun in Victoria B.C., of a global Satanic underground abducting and abusing thousands of children.

“What are you doing here?” Loggins asked Janette. Janette thought this an odd question. “It’s Bike to Work Day,” she said. “Did you ride your bike to school?”“Bicycling isn’t allowed at Maple Avenue School,” said Loggins. Janette did a double take. “You’re kidding me,” she said. “Right?”

The director on Obama, the state of black cinema, the Knicks, the Nets, the tragedy of public education in America, gentrified New York and why he lives on the Upper East Side.

In March of 1991, Vanilla Ice had the #1 album in the country (To the Extreme), a movie about to be released (TMNT II: The Secret of the Ooze), and a dogged belief that his 15 minutes weren’t about to end.

The anatomy of a collapse.

The economics of being a young writer.