How the singer became the target of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics’ early, racially-motivated war on drugs. </br></br>

Excerpted from Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs.

The first living ex-pope in 600 years watches as the successor he enabled dismantles his legacy.

Forty-five years ago, Buzz Aldrin became the second man to walk on the moon. It made him one of the most famous people in the world. And it has haunted the rest of his life.

“We’re trying really hard to make things better,” said one former Apple executive. “But most people would still be really disturbed if they saw where their iPhone comes from.”

Previously: “Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class”

"Some in Nice knew the man as one of the many playboy predators the city seems to beget—black hair slicked back off a shining brow, dress shoes tapering to varnished points, a dark shirt unbuttoned low to reveal the pectorals into which he had obsessively, unblushingly, invested himself. He was 31 but preferred older women, both for their erotic openness and, it seems clear, for their money. Those who knew him best knew him to be a cold and brutal man, detached, amused by little save rough sex and gore."

A draft dodger invents a pop music career for himself – without recording any songs.

“I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it.”

In the years before World War II, Zacharewicz shined at Cannes and was wooed by Samuel Goldwyn but when the Nazis occupied Poland, he was sent to Auschwitz for defending his Jewish countrymen: “For him, the choice was easy.”

On the hundreds of corpses that go unindentified every year along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Meet Alan Chambers, former leader of Exodus International–a “pray the gay away” ministry.

The author dives to the wreck of the Mohawk, where his uncle died in 1935.

The stories of the 109 black men who have played quarterback in the NFL, from Fritz Pollard to Russell Wilson.

Spending time with the residents of K6G, the only gay wing in the entire American penal system.

It isn’t easy to find out the truth about the benefits of male circumcision.

The frenzied few days before the wedding of Prince Charles and Diana Spencer.

A profile of the author on the eve on his debut novel, The Water Dancer.

Gun violence, high school football and what coaches are doing to keep their players safe

On “soldiers for credibility” and the tug of war over truth.

On the road with the makeup-clad band.

The relationship between Buffalo and its team.

Life as a human cannonball.

What it’s like to drive tourists around the Australian outback.

A jeweler from Queens tries to crack the code.

A cautionary inquiry into the unchecked hive mind.

Aging, enhancement, and the hormone.