On the 1998 crash of Swissair Fight 111 into the sea off a small Nova Scotia fishing village.

After faking his entire career and becoming a viral sensation, the heavy metal singer shares his side of the story.

He planned to write a memoir, The Life of a Migrant. Its central thesis: The American Dream is a lie.

How the Ovitzs, a family of Jewish dwarves from Transylvania, survived Auschwitz.

An inquiry into the assassination of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister.

The lives of Sue and Hector Badeau, who felt a calling to raise children and adopted twenty of them.

A profile of Mike Judge, creator of the now-resuscitated Beavis and Butthead.

How the death of a Muslim recruit revealed a culture of brutality.

A profile of California’s governor at the end of more than 40 years in public life.

How Hollywood falls for actresses who “act like a dude but look like a supermodel” – and then changes its mind.

Personalized medicine may one day deliver routine medical miracles. But it wasn’t ready in time for Stephanie Lee.

How a brewery became more famous for what’s on its bottle than what’s in it.

A local environmental activist fights to prepare her community for life beyond mining.

Prince had grand plans for his autobiography, but only a few months to live.

A profile of John Alan Schwartz, creator of one of the most notorious movies ever made.

A profile.

Because business ebbs and flows with the seasons and the economy, Holmes, who lives in Upper Marlboro, has always kept a variety of sidelines, including a job driving a limousine for nine years to put his oldest daughter through a private high school and college. These days, at gigs, he hands out a stack of million-dollar "bills" printed with his image and his current enterprises: bandleader, commercial mortgage broker, hard money lender (slogan: "Hard Money with a Soft Touch").

The global scramble for this vital item has exposed the harsh realities of international politics and the limits of the free market.

A new chapter for Ohio State’s football coach.

The many lives of Josh Tillman, who on the way to releasing one of the year’s best albums was “a defiant child of God, a broke dishwasher, a successful drummer, a Dionysian shaman, a failed poet, a drug-hoovering spiritualist, and a gleeful prankster.”

On gray.

On the coast of Abu Dhabi, gilded outposts of the Louvre, the Guggenheim and New York University are being built by foreign workers who cannot leave and are paid half of what they were promised.

Harsh sentences have given us an aging prison population, and all the medical problems that come with age are beginning to choke the system.

Young climate activists like Jamie Margolin are building a movement while growing up — planning mass protests from childhood bedrooms and during school.

A profile of silent film comedian Buster Keaton:

The story of his life seems in its twists and dives borrowed from his movies, survival demanding a pure lack of sentiment.

Hipsters vs. Hasids in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. A skirmish over a bike lane becomes a battle for a neighborhood.