An insider history of the fall of Myspace; from Rupert Murdoch calling Facebook a mere “communications utility” to the disastrous 2006 deal with Google that demanded huge pageviews and ads everywhere, and finally the present day ruins of a titan.

Born into Sea Org; a diary of a misspent youth (and adulthood) in the service of Scientology. “One of the first things I learned in the Sea Org, because I was a receptionist, was how to handle process servers.” (25,000 words)

Over eight years, through millions of letters, the staff of the White House mailroom read the unfiltered story of a nation.

On the Capitol assault.

Some people may treat the appearance of a Confederate flag as another bit of absurdity, but I’ve never had the luxury of taking it in any way other than literally and seriously.

An obituary for Richard Nixon.

Inside the puppet trial of the decade.

The story of 1968’s Golden Globe, a race to see who could become the first sailor to circumnavigate the world solo without stopping.

A log of the 32 shitless hours that the author spent in the Tombs prison after being arrested during an Occupy Wall Street protest.

The life and death of Georgia Frontiere, who was the only woman owner in professional sports when her St. Louis Rams won the 2000 Super Bowl.

The president is overseeing a sea change in the world of economic policy, and so much hangs in the balance.

Was the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre actually a smokescreen to obscure an even more audacious art crime?

A trip to the writers’ room of The Onion spinoff, which started as a BuzzFeed parody but has morphed into something else: “the institutional voice of the Internet.”

“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.”

The case of Gilberto Valle, “The Cannibal Cop,” and the line between criminal thoughts and action.

The story of the 1969 murder spree by Charles Manson and “Family” as told by those close to the case.

The rise of the long-haul trucker/serial killer, as excerpted from Ginger Strand’s book Killer on the Road.

The untold story of the world’s most infamous sex tape, and how the Internet spread it faster than anyone expected.

Inside the twisted, half-conscious world of Jure Robic, the Slovene soldier who might be the world’s best ultra-endurance athlete.

Inside the minds of two people, one with the world’s best memory and one with the world’s worst.

The shooting death of the last wild Passenger Pigeon, atomic energy, mastodon watering holes, and other footnotes in Ohio history.

On the utter brutality of life in the tent cities, one year after the earthquake.

On the outsized pleasures of the very small.

At age 22, the author went undercover at his old high school. An excerpt of the book that became the film.

The roots musician is inspired by the evolving legacy of the black string band.

A speech on the value of being alone with your thoughts, delivered to the plebe class at West Point.