A interview with John Pistole, head of the TSA.

The author of True Grit on growing up in Arkansas during World War II.

The Ugandan rebel Lord’s Resistance Army, drawn mostly from kidnapped children, has proved as elusive as it is barbaric.

Danny Rubin wrote the movie and then the musical 24 years later. What happens when one thing becomes your entire life?

Making sense of the CEO’s very public tour of America, which feels like a political campaign minus the politics.

The post-election life of the woman who would have been president.

A profile of Lil Yachty.

Nearly all the world’s fake products come from China. America’s oldest private detective agency is on the case.

“I have drunkenly sexually assaulted or raped women—the exact number of which I am currently determining.”

A profile of the irrepressible Trump campaign foreign-policy adviser.

How Cops became the most polarizing reality TV show in America.

The story of one journalist’s giant salary and why his company could no longer pay it.

A 7-part investigation into the true nature of Long Island politics, through the story of street tough-turned-power broker Gary Melius.

A new historical inquiry into the murder of Elwood Higginbotham offers a chance to confront the past.

The family separation crisis that no one knows about.

A generation of African American heroin users is dying in the opioid epidemic nobody talks about. The nation’s capital is ground zero.

Inside the most destructive fire in American history—and why the West’s cities and towns will keep on burning.

“I admit it,” she says, in her hotel room. “I’m a troll. I’m the queen of the fucking trolls.”

Can one of the nation’s great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour?

On the bohemian poet’s hidden career as a prolific copywriter.

Scientists in Brazil are trying to save the giant anteater from a growing threat: roads.

Can Jerry Falwell Jr. build Liberty University’s football team into the evangelical version of Notre Dame?

When Donald Trump hosted and judged the world’s biggest modeling competition.

On the shadowy machinations driving pro-Russia conspiracy sites like Zero Hedge.

A conversation with the former player, and new coach, about basketball, Beijing, and being understood.