How the “Apple of Pot” collapsed.

The search for Syrian war criminals in Europe.

Using several email addresses and a lot of exclamation points, teenager Jonathan Lebed worked finance message boards in the morning before school and made almost a million bucks. Then he made the head of the S.E.C. look like a fool.

The search for Guns N’ Roses’ elusive guitarist.

Delivered at the Austin Convention Center on March 15, 2012.

In the beginning, every musician has their genesis moment. For you, it might have been the Sex Pistols, or Madonna, or Public Enemy. It's whatever initially inspires you to action. Mine was 1956, Elvis on the Ed Sullivan Show. It was the evening I realized a white man could make magic, that you did not have to be constrained by your upbringing, by the way you looked, or by the social context that oppressed you. You could call upon your own powers of imagination, and you could create a transformative self.

Why psychologists love “priming.”

How the city will drown.

The author of The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World’s Greatest Piece of Cheese, interviewed by his editor, Andy Ward, about storytelling, literary heroes, and why the book took him 10 years to write.

The dark and dangerous world of extreme cavers.

How the world failed on climate change.

The business of being Pitbull.

A trip to the capital of Yemen.

Inside the fast-food labor protests.

The story of one Tibetan’s protest.

A eulogy for the activist.

An unlikely environmentalist exposes the natural gas industry’s leaky infrastructure.

On the mountain lions of Los Angeles.

On the criminalization of nondisclosure.

The art of shaping a magazine article.

The perilous attraction of owning exotic pets.

A Red Sox fan profiles the Yankee captain.

On the ground in post-disaster Japan.

The odyssey of trying to have an illegal abortion 1962.

An investigation into The End.

Why the US intervened in Libya.