What it’s like to work for, compete against, and find out you’re the biological father of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. An excerpt from The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon.

Just after midnight, Rye police arrived to bust a house full of partying teenagers. The kids refused to unlock the door, and parents and cops flooded the street. A minute-by-minute account of the standoff.

The narcocorrido-immortalized Pacific coast traditionalists, the kidnap-crazed Gulf coast Zetas, and massacres that no longer seem tied to a discernible purpose; inside the ruins of the Mexican-American border.

Bill Landreth was one of the whiz kids, poking around Pentagon servers with the friends he had never met. But one of them was an FBI informant.

The life and times of female comedy LP sensation Rusty Warren, whose bawdy hits like ‘Knockers Up’ commanded the charts and the lounges of the 1960s Midwest.

Gainsbourg decked out his home at 5 Rue de Verneuil in Saint Germain all in black, inspired by a time when he was younger when he'd somehow got the keys to Salvador Dali's house and made love to his first wife in every room while Dali was away. He even stole a small token souvenir in the form of a picture from Dali's porn collection. (Serge was obsessed with Dali and the pair later became friends. The title of 'Je T'Aime... Moi Non Plus' - roughly translated as 'I love you, me neither' - was inspired by something Dali was once supposed to have said: "Picasso is Spanish - so am I; Picasso is a genius - so am I; Picasso is a communist - me neither.")

A day at the mall with the cast of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.

On Cecilia Chang, the St. John’s fundraiser who committed suicide after being convicted of fraud, and the university administrators who benefited from her crime.

Naffe, a young Republican, entered the belly of the political beast – and was nearly eaten.

A profile of Frank Lucas, whose life was the basis for the film American Gangster, decades after his days as a kingpin.

On the trail of the phantom women who changed American music and vanished without a trace.

On PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, and the experience of covering AIDS in Africa.

On the kids who are spiritual leaders before the age of ten.

The author of The Junction Boys can’t tell you how many times he’s been arrested.

Inside the complicated world of running The New York Times.

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

As of this year, more women than men are in the U.S. workforce. More women are managers and more women are earning college degrees. Here’s why.

After 10 years of documenting memes, nobody has seen this much shit.

The anti-trust saga of Microsoft and Netscape.

An investigation into the aftermath of an allegation.

After decades of influence, the media mogul isn’t so much a person as an epoch.

After sepsis forced the amputation of Sheila Advento’s hands, an intricate transplant technique made her whole again. Then came the side effects.

It started with black market rations and ended with “the wedding of the century.”

The unlikely rise of the 1983 national croquet champions.

A profile of the overlooked icon who forever changed the way Indigenous people are depicted onscreen.