Sandy Jenkins was a shy, daydreaming accountant at the Texas headquarters of Collin Street Bakery, the world’s most famous fruitcake company. He was tired of feeling invisible, so he started stealing — and got a little carried away.

The murder of an Iranian band in Brooklyn by one of their own.

Previously: Nancy Jo Sales on the Longform Podcast.

This isn’t truck-on-truck violence. It’s the taxpaying owners of brick-and-mortar restaurants—along with a host of other powerful District players—who are waging the attack.

On who will bear the burden of the financial crisis facing cities across America. “Will it be articulated in terms of bond defaults or larger kindergarten classes—or no kindergarten classes at all?”

A visit with John Berger, author of Ways of Seeing, which “changed the way at least two generations responded to art,” just before his death.

What happened to “one of maybe 20 girls who became famous in the mid-‘00s for posting photos of themselves on image boards.”

Nick Lim provides tech support to the U.S. networks of White nationalists and conspiracy theorists banned by the likes of Amazon.

The writer of a contentious piece of science fiction, “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter,” drew the internet’s ire. Now she tells her story.

A eulogy of sorts for the King.

An inside account of the Nairobi mall attack.

A profile of the comedian.

The challenges of establishing a legal marijuana economy in Washington State.

On recreational genetics, privacy and the new vulnerability of family secrets.

On the culture of abuse and coverup at Patrick Henry College.

Andrew Ross Sorkin’s intimate coverage of Wall Street.

The undoing of Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, who resigned in January amidst multiple swirling scandals.

Inside the lucrative, predatory, booming world of subprime car loans.

Unraveling the story of an amnesiac who doesn’t want to know his past.

A strange, ongoing property battle among the richest of Texans.

The allure of conclusion-shaping and a wunderkind’s fall.

France, wealth and the saga of tax exile Gérard Depardieu.

Adventures in the cosmetics department of a Neiman Marcus in Dallas.

An inside account of the Egyptian leader’s last day in power.

On the attempt to rehabilitate Afghanistan’s child jihadis.

The unequal risk of climbing Mount Everest.