David Petraeus, father of the surge and the uncontested “most competitive” man in the military.

The bloody, often surreal, fight for Kosovo’s independence was led by a man moonlighting as a roofer in Switzerland.

A blow by blow account of the seizure of a French cruise ship by Somali pirates.

Foreign policy as architecture; how embassies went from lavish social hubs to reinforced strongholds.

A group of childhood friends, two of whom had already climbed Everest, finds tragedy on Mont Blanc.

On the gap between how the world sees Goldman Sachs and how Goldman Sachs sees itself.

In 1975, Jackie O., widow to a president and tycoon, decided to become a literary editor.

The backstory on Julian Assange’s relationship with the Guardian and the New York Times.

“While its source remains something of a mystery, Stuxnet is the new face of 21st-century warfare: invisible, anonymous, and devastating.”

An occasionally collaborative profile of the director.

An essay on life as “the first person whose global humiliation was driven by the Internet.”

The decade-long journey of a novel–Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding–through the unpredictable world of book publishing.

On the actors who unwittingly starred in The Innocence of Muslims.

What the rapidly changing world of teenage hook-up culture means for young women.

The dissolution of Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Deng’s marriage amidst evidence of her affairs with Tony Blair and Eric Schmidt.

“Is he Socrates or Mengele?” On the late Jack Kevorkian.

Celebrated doctor Paolo Macchiarini was not all that he seemed.

When massive ships sink, burn, fall apart or get stuck, their owners call Nick Sloane. His job: figure out how to save as much as he can.

Tommy Gilbert seemed like your average Beekman Place ne’er-do-well son—until his dad turned up dead.

A quasi-oral history of the party that was JFK’s 1961 inauguration.

J.D. Salinger on the beaches on D-Day, marching through concentration camps, and in liberated Paris.

How the Weinstein Brothers barked their way into an empire and then lost it.

On the promise of 23-year-old Nicholas Cleves, who died in the bike path attack in New York.

A comprehensive history of the case against the Menendez brothers, built primarily on secret audio recording made by their self-promoting therapist.

The untold story behind the mysterious disappearance of Fan Bingbing, the world’s biggest movie star.