A master troll on trial in New Jersey.

On being stalked in the age of the Internet.

How to get high in America – legally.

An endangered-species murder mystery in Hawaii.

On the India-Pakistan proxy war in Afghanistan.

An inside account of the Egyptian leader’s last day in power.

At the annual meeting of Berkshire Hathaway in Omaha.

Transporting an instrument after a death in the family.

Life on a weed farm in Humboldt County.

“I have a big cock in my living room.”

The mystery of a death in Dallas.

A profile of photographer Robert Frank in his 90th year.

Who killed four people in the French Alps?

The discovery of a new human ancestor, hidden in a hard-to-access cave.

On the gender gap in diagnosis and treatment of autism.

What Gregg Popovich, 5-time NBA champion coach, looks for in players.

The ridiculousness of trying to rank the best restaurants in the world.

“As the world’s best-known oceanographer—Sylvia is to our era what Jacques Cousteau was to an earlier one—she feels a heavy responsibility. In her lifetime, she has seen the ocean damaged in ways humans never thought it could be. The ongoing disaster leaves her mournful, desolate, and sometimes scary to talk to. Since her first dive, in a sponge-diver’s helmet in a Florida river when she was 16, she has spent 7,000 hours, or the better part of a year, underwater.”

How France’s public schools became the battleground in a culture war.

On the reverberations of a 1974 peasant massacre in El Salvador.

How incest and rape go unpunished in the Amish community.

An essay on the evolving narrative of martyrdom in the Islamist and secular worlds.

In Tripoli, after Gaddafi.

Tourism in Burma? A journey through Asia’s most anesthetized state.

An investigation into sexual abuse in youth sports, with a focus on USA Swimming.