Anxiety, weight, general well-being—how the first nine months determine the rest of your life.

How the golfer hasn’t changed, post-scandal.

Try as his publicity squad might, it's tough to maintain—or now restore—the Tiger Image when former insiders sprout secret-sharing campaigns. "It's always a divorce," David Feherty, longtime commentator and golf-gab-show host, told me recently. "Tiger expects the curtains to remain drawn, and when somebody opens them, it pisses him off. He has appeared superhuman for so long, and it's like he feels the need to perpetuate that myth."

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

An investigation into allegations that Rwandan President Paul Kagame is assassinating exiled dissidents.

The fight to grant asylum to the translators who worked—and sometimes fought—alongside U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Five of the sixteen women speak.

How a celebrated American artist was forced to trade his multimillion-dollar collection for a job selling donuts.

[Part 1 of 2] The story behind this spring’s spate of retributive murders in Southwest D.C.

The Syrian refugee said his name was Paul, and that he was 16 years old. The truth was much more complicated.

How a baby-faced CEO turned a Farmville clone into a massive Ponzi scheme.

Paul Bremer was briefly the Bush administration’s point person in Iraq. His decisions would have lasting consequences.

The hard luck stories of Trump fans in Florida, New Hampshire, and Iowa, including that of a man who legally changed his name to Donald Trump Jr.

Newly sober, a man considers faith in its various forms.

The making and near unmaking of Paul Thomas Anderson’s breakout film.

In 1926, at the age of 12, Barbara Follett published a critically acclaimed novel. Fourteen years later, she disappeared.

For mountaineers, it’s not enough just to get to the top—it’s how you get there that matters.

A profile of Paul Manafort, “a great normalizer of corruption” who “weakened the capital’s ethical immune system.”

For 30 years, Paul Shuen was one of the city’s most respected obstetricians. Then his nurses noticed something unusual about the way he delivered babies.

In 1997, the former Soviet leader needed money, and Pizza Hut needed a spokesman. Greatness ensued.

How billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Warren Buffett pay so little in income tax compared to their massive wealth—sometimes, even nothing.

Meet Gene Locks, the onetime Princeton quarterback suing the NFL on behalf of 4,000 former players.

Departing Marrakech by car with a plan to record music for the Library of Congress.

How the Gingrich-era brain drain crippled the government and led to last year’s shutdown.