Tracking the humble hummingbird down to Belize.

The most powerful man in publishing, unfiltered.

On the adultery website AshleyMadison.com.

Fact-checking David Sedaris.

When the Rolling Stones played Altamont.

“The regular average layman couldn’t see what I see. And the way they’re painting the trainer is all wrong. Look at him there, screaming, Do this! and Do that! I never had anyone telling me what to do. I did it. Shouting at the fighter like that makes him look like an animal, like a horse to be trained.”

Pacquiao and his entourage.

How dancing can inspire a writer.

Meet the people decomposing on a body farm.

Kamala Harris makes her case.

Wanders through the emptied post-American landscape.

Introducing the real Will Smith.

“He’d gotten hold of this notion that one times one doesn’t equal one, but two. He began writing down his logic, in a language of his own devising that he calls Terryology. He wrote forward and backward, with both his right and left hands, sometimes using symbols he made up that look foreign, if not alien, to keep his ideas secret until they could be patented.”

Yasiel Puig’s journey to the Dodgers.

Can an illegal drug heal PTSD?

The fallout from a 1987 Wisconsin manhunt.

Visiting a lost friend.

How Jeffrey Katzenberg became the Democrats’ kingmaker.

Life after The Real World.

How the group’s 10 members live today.

The first entry in the City by City project, on a Baltimore funeral:

My homeboy is interred at a cemetery with a swan lake where we used to take our girls at night because it was a park with a lake and it was just over the line and in the county.

On the endless quest to predict earthquakes.

The Occupy Wall Street origin story.

Thoughts on race and adoption.

Michael Lewis goes undercover at Columbia.