On the lifestyle of a fugitive retiree, and how it came to an end.

The story of the Delmar family, told through what they watch on TV.

An investigative reporter goes undercover at a dealership to learn the tricks of the trade, of which there are many.

On the controversial British newspaper columnist Katie Hopkins.

The life of Phyllis Frye, a pioneer in the fight for transgender rights.

The former governor of Massachusetts wants to remove the stigma from electric shock treatments. They saved Kitty’s life.

The history of canis lupus in America, up to the present day.

A secret meeting, and short Q&A, with the drug lord while he was still on the lam.

The inside story, involving low ratings, new ownership, suspected leaks, and a mandate that Meet the Press “loosen up.”

David Carr’s advice for the 2014 graduating class at the UC Berkeley School of Journalism.

A weekend with the only person on Earth who can survive five venomous snakebites in 48 hours.

A son chronicles his father’s death:

My father's mortician was a careless barber. Stepping up to the open casket, I realized too much had been taken off the beard. The sides were trimmed tidy, the bottom cut flat across. It was a disconcerting sight, because in his last years, especially, my father had worn his beard wild, equal parts loony chemist and liquor store Santa. The mortician ought to have known this, I thought, because he knew the man in life. My father — himself the grandson of a funeral home director — would drop by Davey-Linklater in Kincardine, Ontario, now and then for a friendly chat. How's business? Steady as she goes? Death was his favourite joke.

On a child diagnosed with autism:

The worst part was that I knew he sensed it, too. In the same way that I know when he wants vegetable puffs or puréed fruit by the subtle pitch of his cries, I could tell that he also perceived the change—and feared it. At night he was terrified to go to bed, needing to hold my fingers with one hand and touch my face with the other in order to get the few hours of sleep he managed. Every morning he was different. Another word was gone, another moment of eye contact was lost. He began to cry in a way that was untranslatable. The wails were not meant as messages to be decoded; they were terrified expressions of being beyond expression itself.

How an up-and-coming Boston surgeon became best known for leaving a patient on the operating table while he skipped out to cash a check.

On a U.S. soldier burned to the verge of death and the virtual-reality video game doctors used as treatment when he came home.

The history of “‘50s-era market-tested USDA White Pan Loaf No. 1.”

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.

A 7,000-word anatomy of the chaotic 9 minutes after the U.S. Supreme Court issued its health care ruling.

Both the Chinese government and private matchmakers are laboring to unite people who lost spouses and children in the earthquake.

In the wake of 9/11, terrorist networks moved their recruitment and training efforts online, giving birth to Jihad-geeks like Irhabi_007.

If the fittest survive, why are so many people still depressed? An evolutionary theory on the benefits of painful rumination.

What happened next for Harry Whittington, the guy Cheney shot in the face? Not an apology.

How two Italian teenagers hacked the Soviet space program and may have heard the dying breaths of a lost cosmonaut.

A interview with John Pistole, head of the TSA.