Inside the world of bass fishing cheaters.

On the gentle art of pipe smoking.

On the scandal of our teeming prisons.

A profile of the director.

A profile of the filmmaker.

Black excellence in the land of tennis.

The timeless allure of looking through other peoples stuff.

A 2018 profile of the tennis star.

A profile of the actor, who died Monday.

The ride-share company has 250 lobbyists and 29 lobbying firms registered in capitols around the nation, a third more than Wal-Mart Stores. Among other things.

How a traveling medical technician managed to steal narcotics from hospitals, infecting at least 45 people with hepatitis C in the process.

How the contradiction-rich “country the size of Connecticut” that birthed Al-Jazeera has played an integral and surprising role in the revolutions of the Arab Spring.

The hunt for rare 1933 Double Eagle coins:

The U.S. Secret Service, responsible for protecting the nation’s currency, has been pursuing them for nearly 70 years, through 13 Administrations and 12 different directors. The investigation has spanned three continents and involved some of the most famous coin collectors in the world, a confidential informant, a playboy king, and a sting operation at the Waldorf Astoria in Manhattan. It has inspired two novels, two nonfiction books, and a television documentary. And much of it has centered around a coin dealer, dead since 1990, whose shop is still open in South Philadelphia, run by his 82-year-old daughter.

The revolutionary and the silver screen.

In Guyana after the Jonestown massacre, with the survivors and the dead.

The inside story of the first homicide in America’s most secure prison.

The story of a naïve fisherman, a boat headed for Spain and 1.5 tons of cocaine.

How a group of serial entrepreneurs with an already impressive string of hits changed the way the world talks.

The Granite Mountain Hotshots, an outfit of professional wildland firefighters, had 20 members. On June 30, 19 of them lost their lives.

The rise and fall of Colorado’s newly-legal cash crop.

A profile of driver A.J. Foyt on the eve of what was supposed to be his final Indy 500.

Part one of W.T. Snead’s Victorian-era investigation into child prostitution.

On the group of friends who came to rule the bizarre, decreasingly lucrative world of Internet porn.

A pre-eminent expert on large carnivores runs afoul of the enemies of the wolf.

What happened to the group of bright college students who fell under the sway of a classmate’s father?