On the ground at the big, sad, strange Burt Reynolds memorabilia auction in Las Vegas.

Watching TV with the President the night before he fired James Comey.

An interview with the mind behind Star Trek.

After the relationship ended, the harassment began.

Conversations with the petroleum brotherhood in the UAE.

Glory, grief, and the race for the Triple Crown.

Tracking stolen firearms through the black market, from gun store thefts to crime scenes.

What science can tell us about how other creatures experience the world.

The first interview with a key witness in Trump’s impeachment trial.

Sheikh Amer Hassan’s parties were notoriously debauched, evidence of a growing permissiveness in Karachi high society. His murder by a pair of young brothers surprised few.

On adolescence, pen pals, and the Manson girls.

On the couple and their role in the 2016 election.

Freedom, the GOP, and a rhesus macaque on the loose.

The people behind “the only American luxury compact sport sedan.”

On the novelist’s experience in movie-making.

On the India-Pakistan proxy war in Afghanistan.

The secretive group that owns the venerable magazine.

On the penalties imposed – or not – on prison guards who have sex with inmates.

The president’s eulogy for the Reverend Clementa Pinckney.

One woman’s attempt to break the speed record on the Pacific Crest Trail.

The real journalists who inspired the movie look back on their investigation.

Tracing the Boston Marathon route via the people who live and work along its course.

The most coveted items on the prison menu are salt and pepper packets.

Sex, the Constitution, and the Supreme Court.

What the health care industry can learn from how The Cheesecake Factory does business.