A week in the author’s life when it became impossible to control the course of events.

A visit to the hotel North Korea starved to build, still unfinished after breaking ground in 1987.

An investigation into the death of a sacred white buffalo and the man who raised it.

A bookkeeper’s $9 million swindle, her lavish second life, and the boss who didn’t notice.

A visit to a Maine museum devoted to Bigfoot and other mythical creatures.

Twenty-six years after he was wrongfully imprisoned for the murder of his wife, Michael Morton sees the real killer brought to justice in a Texas courthouse.

On Japan’s Hokkaido, an island the size of Ireland, and its rebel leader of lore, Shakushain.

The bumpy ride from St. Petersburg and Moscow, through a Russia slipping back into the 19th century.

On the factories of India and the women whose lives they ruin.

The search for a disgraced ex-LAPD officer bent on killing his former colleagues and their families.

The congressman (and future Mayor of New York) vs. the South American assassin.

In Hollywood’s new blockbuster economy, the actors who portray superheroes are as interchangeable as the costumes they wear.

The fight to grant asylum to the translators who worked—and sometimes fought—alongside U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The inner workings of a high school basketball team stacked with international talent.

Why has the Palestinian cause failed to produce a Martin Luther King-like leader with a platform based on non-violence?

An investigation into the sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests in Alaska Native villages.

A profile of Larry Garrison, the man who “gets paid to bring tabloid stories to TV news programs.”

On the investors betting big on the Iraqi economy, which they believe has nowhere to go but up.

What are the foreign policy views of Michele Bachmann, Tim Pawlenty, Rick Perry and Mitt Romney?

A look at the artists and writers who drive for a New York cab company. The story that inspired Taxi.

A profile of Harold Camping, a Christian radio host who (falsely) predicted the end of the world.

A former first-string tackle considers the green zone as a war zone:

Just as football has evolved in accordance with the evolving business ethic of American society, so has it evolved in accordance with the changing strategic assumptions about war. The development (or rebirth) of the T-formation in football coincided almost exactly with the development of a new era of mobility and speed in warfare best exemplified in the Blitzkrieg tactics of the German armies in Europe in 1939-40. The T-formation soon overwhelmed the “Maginot Line” mentality of traditional football, based as it was on rigid lines and massive concentrations of defensive and offensive power.

“In the very near future, the act of remembering will become a choice.”

A newspaper writer’s attempt to solve the mystery of a homeless man who claims to be a once-famous boxer.