Forty-five years ago, Buzz Aldrin became the second man to walk on the moon. It made him one of the most famous people in the world. And it has haunted the rest of his life.

“My mother kept scrapbooks of everything any of her children did all their lives, and among my scrapbooks are newspapers that I wrote on the typewriter at the age of six, The Hersey Family News, with ads offering my older brothers for various kinds of hard labor at very low wages.”

An orgy of free song-sharing seems to be exactly the kind of thing that the horrified labels would quickly clamp down on. But they appear to be starting to accept that their fortunes rest with the geeks. Or at least they’re trying to talk a good game. “I’m not part of the past—I’m part of the future,” says Lucian Grainge, chair and CEO of the world’s biggest label, Universal Music Group. “There’s a new philosophy, a new way of thinking.”

How Tim Durham funded a libertine lifestyle—dozens of luxury cars, Playboy-themed parties, a plethora of failed businesses—on the backs of unwitting Ohioans, many of them Amish.

A personal reconstruction.

An immigrant on what happens when neighbors turn on each other:

"Every Bosnian I know had a friend, or even a family member, who flipped and betrayed the life they had shared until, in the early 1990s, the war started. My best high-school friend turned into a rabid Serbian nationalist and left his longtime girlfriend in Sarajevo so he could take part in its siege. My favorite literature professor became one of the main ideologues of Serbian fascism. Just last week, I talked to a Muslim man from Foča whose mother was repeatedly raped by his Serb friend, and whose brother was killed by their neighbor. Yugoslavia and Bosnia had provided a sense of societal stability for a couple of generations, which is why the betrayal was so shocking to so many of us."

Dinner with the novelist, the book critic and “Myshkin, a 14-year-old female dachshund who is deaf but decidedly not mute.”

I say, Where’s Breonna, why won’t anybody say where Breonna is? He says, Well, ma’am, she’s still in the apartment. And I know what that means.

Remembering the book that changed the way journalists covered the NBA.

How the singer became the target of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics’ early, racially-motivated war on drugs. </br></br>

Excerpted from Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs.

A profile of Florida legend—and pardoned killer—Charlie Driver.

Tracing the steps of migrants from the Middle East and Africa to the Kent countryside.

The man behind the craze for fermented alcoholic tea likes to tell the story of his own conception.

A voyage to North Sentinel island, home to one of the last entirely isolated populations on Earth.

There are just a handful of people using iron lungs in the U.S. And the machines they rely on to live are wearing out.

What the journey of swifts, who spend all their time in the sky, tell us about the future.

How a drifter from Milwaukee became the chief executioner of the Cuban Revolution—and a test case for U.S. civil rights.

The first living ex-pope in 600 years watches as the successor he enabled dismantles his legacy.

On the road with the makeup-clad band.

The relationship between Buffalo and its team.

Life as a human cannonball.

The investigation that brought down K2 Productions.

What it’s like to drive tourists around the Australian outback.

A jeweler from Queens tries to crack the code.