Defensive end Shawn King was the 36th pick in the 1995 draft. His career with the Carolina Panthers didn’t turn out as planned.

Emma Perrier was deceived by an older man on the internet—and then she found love with the model whose photographs he had stolen.

Riding along with the Mets broadcast trio, the main reason to watch the team.

To understand the President’s path to the 2020 election, look at what he has provided the country’s executive class.

On the people who lie about serving in the military and the detectives who try to expose them.

The assumptions made by public officials, and the choices made by media, too often backfired.

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.

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.

Sex, the Constitution, and the Supreme Court.

On the Texas-sized trash island floating in the Pacific.

Horowitz went from the New Left to the far right. Now neither side wants him.

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

The truck driver who reverse engineered the atomic bomb.

How Internet porn has altered the ways we think about, and engage in, sex.

An essay about the weeks after the author’s brother nearly died.

Tim Berners-Lee, the man who created the World Wide Web, has some regrets.