A profile of the filmmaker Errol Morris as he prepared to release The Thin Blue Line after a decade of limited distribution, semi-poverty, and a side career as a private detective.

She was a young plutonium worker whose Honda Civic Hatchback ran off the road and smashed into the wall of a concrete culvert. In her trunk were manila folders full of documents, which immediately went missing.

On Michael Lewis and the global financial crisis.

Previously: The Michael Lewis World Tour of Economic Collapse

How the former U.N. weapon’s inspector and “loudest and most credible skeptic of the Bush administration’s contention that Hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction” ended up embroiled in an Internet sex scandal involving underage girls.

How two brothers, born of the same mother but adopted by different families, reunited and used a stolen $50k to fund a ride that started in New Jersey and ended with bullet-ridden cabins in the wilds of Alaska.

A melancholic Billy Ray Cyrus on the trauma of being the father of a famous 18-year-old girl, his friendship with Kurt Cobain, and his favorite mullet nicknames (Kentucky Waterfall and Missouri Compromise).

Fourteen people connected to resistance of Vladimir Putin have died on British soil. Every case has been closed, the deaths deemed of natural causes. American intelligence believes they were all assassinated by the Kremlin.

A profile of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, who “may be the only reliable voice of caution left in an administration inching closer to the brink.”

A prostitution and sex trafficking ring operated on the outskirts of a U.S. Navy base in Bahrain and may have involved 15% of the sailors stationed there.

How the former CEO of McKinsey, who was indicted in the largest insider trading case in United States history, got played.

On the trail of Austin Tice and the late James Foley, freelance journalists who were kidnapped in Syria in 2012.

How modernity – and an eruption of violence – changed “the most remote inhabited island on the Atlantic seaboard.”

The rise of One Direction fanfiction that imagines the band members in relationships – with each other.

A “crude table-tennis arcade game” called Pong and the birth of the video game industry.

Thoughts on the current era of online anonymity.

In Silicon Valley, up all night coding in the dorms with the aspiring Mark Zuckerbergs of tomorrow.

The history of – and recent controversy over – the diagnosis.

The disappointing tenure of Uruguay’s great lefty hope.

On the Final Exit Network, a controversial right-to-die organization, and the death of their client John Celmer.

A profile of thriller writer Harlan Coben and what it takes to succeed as a novelist even when the literary establishment doesn’t acknowledge your existence.

How Indians with the surname Patel came to own 1/3 of the motels in America.

The fatal allure of the Golden Gate Bridge and why it doesn’t have a barrier to thwart potential leapers.

The story of two Canadian artificial intelligence visionaries who became bitter rivals and then both committed suicide in the same month.

On the evolution of Nigeria’s booming film industry, which produces 50 full-length features a week.

An examination of the continued fascination with the 6-year-old beauty queen, 20 years after her murder.