The inside story of how Yahoo’s C.E.O. lost her way.

The everyday violence of some urban neighburhoods in America takes its own emotional toll.

Karaoke renditions of ‘My Way’ have led to murders in the Phillipines.

How a French journalist recruited a posse of Brazilian parking lot attendants and pizza-delivery guys and created Hollywood’s most addictive entertainment product.

Tony Judt on sex, the academy, and dating a graduate student while chairing NYU’s History Department.

A profile of Rahm Emanuel, written during his first congressional campaign in Illinois. Emanuel was running to fill the seat vacated by Rod Blagojevich.

Ten years ago, Esquire did a piece about Harvard Law grads who had eschewed their degrees. One of them was the late comedian.

Where the actual online money is centralized, and where Google will have to go to continue chasing it.

A quasi-oral history of the party that was JFK’s 1961 inauguration.

The story of Jejoen Bontinck, a Belgian teen-ager who travelled to Syria to fight with radical Islamists.

At 33, Wendy Brown stole her daughter’s name, grabbed a pair of pom-poms, and went back to high school. Then she went to jail.

The story of a newscaster’s suicide.

On a mysterious migrant in a San Diego hospital bed, and the thousands of families who hope that he’s theirs.

Disillusioned with fine dining, one of the world’s great chefs took on fast food. It has been harder than he ever imagined.

The rise and fall of a violent underground anti-racist group.

Investigating the disappearance of a trans teen who hasn’t been seen since 2012.

The NBA’s greatest draft bust, Darko Milicic is now an enthusiastic farmer of cherries in his native Serbia.

The story of a Puerto Rican family trying to get settled in Chicago after Hurricane Maria.

They’ve built a hidden society in a state park. Among the haole squatters of Kalalau.

The inside story of how an Ivy League food scientist turned shoddy data into viral studies.

How Jerry Falwell Jr. transformed Liberty University, one of the religious right’s most powerful institutions, into a wildly lucrative online empire.

What does it take to save a 300-pound loggerhead with a horrible injury? Inside the yearlong journey of recovery.

A renowned scholar claimed that he discovered a first-century gospel fragment. Now he’s facing allegations of antiquities theft, cover-up, and fraud.

In an Arkansas jail with one of the America’s largest coronavirus outbreaks, prison terms become death sentences.

How the waters off of LA became a DDT dumping ground.