A barely drinking-age Green Day profiled shortly after the release of Dookie.

A tale of ambition, motherhood and political mythmaking in the race for governor of Texas.

The roast where Chevy Chase learned that everyone hates him.

How a group of vigilante cat-lovers seeking the hooded figure who suffocated a kitten in an internet video found a sadistic killer.

A story written about Twitter and one its founders, Evan Williams, when the company’s chief source of revenue was subletting desks in their partially filled office.

On Sebastian Junger’s War and the documentary Restrepo by Tim Hetherington, who was killed in Libya yesterday.

On the “world’s largest social network that you probably haven’t yet heard of” and its enigmatic founder.

The former Perfect Strangers star cheerfully slags Tom Cruise, Eddie Murphy and Denzel Washington, among others.

A profile of lifelong thief and 13-time escapee Chris Gay, aka “Little Houdini.”

A profile of Jill Abramson from her first weeks as executive editor of The New York Times.

Kylee Kimbrough lost her childhood, lost her sobriety, lost her living situation, and finally even lost her son. Then she found the drums.

360 degree deals and the music industry’s new hostages.

A 58-year-old diabetic and his team of amateur rugby players attempt to qualify for the 1984 Summer Olympics in rowing.

The voices we generally hear on public radio reflect only a narrow range of experiences, particularly with regards to race. There’s a cost to that.

A journalist and documentarian charts over a decade of her relationship with Philip Roth.

Lester Cotton’s transformation from reluctant football player to top Alabama recruit, and the hopes and dreams of a neighborhood that ride on his shoulders.

Being friends with Susan Sontag was thrilling, but also “shot through in the end with mutual irritation.”

In the deep ocean, a swimming sea-worm called a “green bomber” can throw sacs of light when attacked.

Before The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen was just another literary novelist with a new book coming out.

Everyone just wants to know if he’s going to the football game.

What happened when Pakistan shut down the vitally important Karachi to Kabul trucking line.

How the CIA, under a program called MK-ULTRA, used a San Francisco apartment to dose johns with LSD.

Participating in the Dakar Rally.