The battle between 1975’s biggest shows.

The origin story of Gabriel García Márquez’s classic.

On the discovery of a billion dollars worth of artwork looted by Nazis in the cramped apartment of a Munich recluse.

Why “Father of Botox” Arnold Klein, whose famous clients once included Michael Jackson and Elizabeth Taylor, thinks everyone’s out to get him.

The wealthy widow of an East Bay newspaper baron, her cowboy fantasy man, and the drowning nobody could solve.

On the psychological damage punitive isolation inflicts upon Guantánamo and American prisoners alike.

Ripping out the guts of an “utterly preposterous document”: the Starr Report on the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

Dozens of young adults in rural Wales are hanging themselves, feeding an epidemic of copycat suicides that experts are have been unable to contain.

There’s a growing gap between the gun lobby’s leadership and its rank-and-file.

The director of The Exorcist visits the Vatican’s 91-year-old in-house exorcist in Rome.

The Department of Energy is in chaos and it is putting the world at risk.

On the star who is re-writing the rules for the next generation.

A profile of then-First Lady Barbara Bush, published just before the 1992 presidential election. The lede: “Even Barbara Bush’s stepmother is afraid of her.”

How the media and law enforcement fingered the wrong man for the 1996 Olympic Park bombing.

The comic answers some uncomfortable questions.

Was the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre actually a smokescreen to obscure an even more audacious art crime?

Sam Simon made a fortune from The Simpsons. Now, diagnosed with terminal cancer, he is racing to spend it.

A profile of Malala Yousafzai, the young activist from Pakistan who was just awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Dan Akroyd, John Belushi, cocaine, and the making of The Blues Brothers.

How Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger and his Airbus A320 landed safely in the Hudson.

A two-part series on how and why Arianna Huffington lost control of The Huffington Post.

Fast cars and bad decisions in a race through Southern Europe known as the “Gumball 3000.”

The conspiracy theories surrounding the 1931 death of Hitler’s niece and object of affection.

On the front lines of a dating culture dominated by right and left swipes.

A love triangle between two married professors and the dean goes public.