The stories of women who “are operating at unprecedented levels on every floor of CIA headquarters and throughout its far-flung global outposts.”

A Buenos Aires hacker haven produced some of Argentina’s most valuable crypto companies. Then it suddenly disappeared.

The swinging life and boozy death of the original ladies man, and the story of “the coroner that tampered with his cold, lifeless venereal warts.”

Pinch-hitting for an ailing Ted Kennedy, the then-candidate honors the Kennedy’s life of service and implores graduates to wed their lives to others:

Ted Kennedy often tells a story about the fifth anniversary celebration of the Peace Corps. He was there, and he asked one of the young Americans why he had chosen to volunteer. And the man replied, ‘Because it was the first time someone asked me to do something for my country.’ I don’t know how many of you have been asked that question, but after today, you have no excuses.

An inquiry into the assassination of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister.

The lives of Sue and Hector Badeau, who felt a calling to raise children and adopted twenty of them.

A profile of Mike Judge, creator of the now-resuscitated Beavis and Butthead.

How the death of a Muslim recruit revealed a culture of brutality.

A profile of California’s governor at the end of more than 40 years in public life.

“In fact, in private conversations, Obama rarely mentions Trump at all. Those who’ve visited the office he’s leased from the World Wildlife Fund in Washington’s West End say he’s eager to talk for hours about the world’s ills. When informed about the latest presidential tweetstorms aimed at him, he chuckles and changes the subject. One friend of Obama’s recalled that after a 45-minute meeting that avoided the subject of Trump entirely, the pair ducked into an aide’s office and saw on television that the president was claiming to have been absolved in the Russia inquiry. Obama’s eyes flicked toward the chyron and his face took on a decidedly bemused aspect for a beat before he turned back to their conversation as if nothing had happened.”

A small New Jersey town is world-famous among Orthodox Jews as a place to come ask for handouts.

Nearly every American soldier injured in Iraq or Afghanistan is treated—for a few days at least—at a single hospital in Landstuhl, Germany.

Culture profoundly shapes our ideas about mental illness, which is something psychologist Nev Jones knows all too well.

On Benjamin Murmelstein, the head of the council of elders at the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

A profile of the founding editor of Radar and current editor of The Fix, penned by a former employee.

On peaches.

Visiting with the Christian fighters defending Iraq’s Nineveh Plains.

Rodeo bulls and the boys who ride them.

An interview with the author, who died Monday.

The 1826 kidnapping – and murder – that begat America’s obsession with Masons.

The search for an anonymous amateur philosopher.

Traditions, feuds, and controversies in British pest control.

When the U.S. Postal Service was a hotbed for innovation.

A woo-hoo heard around the world.