My wife is not a terrorist.

Tom Wicker was without a notebook on November 22, 1963. Instead, reported Gay Talese, he “scribbled his observations and facts across the back of a mimeographed itinerary of Kennedy’s two-day tour of Texas.”

Here’s the 3,700-word masterpiece he filed.

“Women are not abstaining from or delaying marriage to prove a point about equality. They are doing it because they have internalized assumptions that just a half-century ago would have seemed radical.”

Excerpted from </em>All the Single Ladies</a>.

"I thought dying for your country was the worst thing that could happen to you, and I don't think it is. I think killing for your country can be a lot worse. Because that's the memory that haunts."

On February 25, 1969, Bob Kerrey led a raid into a Vietnamese peasant hamlet during which at least 13 unarmed women and children were killed.

On riding China’s Qinghai-Tibet Railway just before it opened:

Staring out at the shimmering tracks and concrete-reinforced embankment extending to the horizon, I can’t help but think of the senior Chinese scientist who confessed to me that the rail line he helped build might not be safe for long.

A team of researchers at Columbia believe that small changes to college life could make campuses safer.

Life on the other side of the laptop.

Decades later, U.S.-backed dictator Hissène Habré faces justice.

On the campaign trail with Richard Nixon.

On Hillary Clinton’s policy team.

How a team of 40 engineers helped reelect Barack Obama.

Inside the DIY world of synthetic drugs.

An overachiever on what he did and didn’t learn at Princeton.

The story of the manhunt.

How Wall Street won.

Some passions are more dangerous than others.

One woman’s ghastly dollhouse dioramas turned crime scene investigation into a science.

A talented young chef loses control.

A grieving father looks for answers.