A Red Sox fan profiles the Yankee captain.

An investigation into The End.

Opening up about medical mistakes.

The 1920s experiment to reverse-engineer wild cows.

The justly paranoid man behind WikiLeaks.

The quest to control hurricanes.

A happy ending, eventually.

The playwright’s forgotten son.

Organizing the tech sector.

Governor? Senator? Veep? President?!

On lawyer Alan Dershowitz.

The fight to save an innocent refugee from almost certain death.

An interview with the author.

At The New York Times, a reckoning.

On modern motherhood and the birth narrative.

From her deathbed, the author’s mother revealed a secret she had kept for 60 years: her true love was not his father, but a man named Angus Zahrt. On his ensuing search for the full story.

Text from the books and Foster Wallace’s corresponding annotations:

Along with all the Wittgenstein, Husserl and Borges, he read John Bradshaw, Willard Beecher, Neil Fiore, Andrew Weil, M. Scott Peck and Alice Miller. Carefully.

When Putin suggested to Obama that the White House and the Kremlin speak through an intermediary, he named who he thought was the obvious candidate: his friend Steven Seagal.

Inside the Vice President’s gamble on Donald Trump.

On the people who will be sent back to a place they’ve never called home if DACA runs out.

Getting clean with a three-day trip.

Previously: The Longform Guide to Addiction.

On the mysterious relationship between a major New York State power broker and a Brooklyn family. “The Turanos are variously described by friends, neighbors and colleagues as the senator’s social acquaintances, lovers or surrogate relatives.”

The Columbia shuttle was to be a revolution for NASA. But a year before its first launch, the shuttle was several years behind schedule, had cost $1 billion, and wasn’t guaranteed to ever get off the ground.

How HBO went from sitcoms starring Delta Burke and O.J. Simpson to The Wire. The view from a former HBO employee who witnessed the channel’s rise to prominence firsthand.

How do you sell a $3000 vacuum?