It wasn’t easy, or cheap.

A profile of comedian Ricky Gervais.

On murder and mental illness.

The backstory of the publication of WikiLeaks’s Afghanistan logs.

A profile of of Courtney Love.

Spending the summer as a tour guide on a glacier.

Can new, immersive film technology increase our empathy?

The difference between being African and being African-American.

Roger Goodell, the Patriots and one huge “makeup call.”

On the business of an idea.

Meet the man who was raised by wolves.

How prison changed the former pro scout.

The sinking of the Costa Concordia cruise ship.

What the author learned about himself from Jill Abramson’s Merchants of Truth.

Inside the Hong Kong protests.

How the USPS works.

The elegant science of turning cadavers into compost.

Inside an international smuggling operation.

In the face of death threats, a forensic anthropologist has spent two decades exhuming the victims of a “dirty” civil war. Now his work might help bring justice for their murders.

The story of Christopher Knight, who lived in the Maine woods for 27 years with virtually no human contact.

While war raged across Afghanistan, expats lived in a bubble of good times and easy money. But as the U.S. withdraws, life has taken a deadly turn.

A young black gentrifier gets lumped in with both groups, often depending on what she’s wearing and where she’s drinking. She is always aware of that fact.

The director on Obama, the state of black cinema, the Knicks, the Nets, the tragedy of public education in America, gentrified New York and why he lives on the Upper East Side.

A ragtag band of pirate-Jihadists grab Americans from a diving resort in the Phillipines and lead them on an odyssey through the jungles of an archipelago with the competing interests of the Phillipines’ Navy and Army, the U.S. Military, and the C.I.A. thwarting their rescue.

“Most of us should be in jail for the things we do. We just haven’t been caught. No one’s gone after us.”