The false promise and double standard of integration in the Obama era.

The defining, minute-by-minute account of the 2008 attacks in Mumbai.

The rise of Modi and the Hindu far right.

The author ponders the dissolution of his own marriage, and others.

The story of the Huffington Post.

The future of India’s “good minority,” the Parsis.

The stories of four women whose children joined the Islamic State.

A narrative of the Michael Brown shooting.

A dispatch from the frozen, drunken wasteland of Eastern Siberia.

The original story of Christopher McCandless’ fateful trip into the Alaskan wilderness.

The case of the disappearing Pappy Van Winkle bourbon.

Promise kept.

But his greatest presidential stumbling block may be right under his nose. At home, Newt's second wife, Marianne Ginther Gingrich, tells me she doesn't see herself in the First Lady's job. "Watching Hillary has just been a horrible experience," commiserates Marianne. "Hillary sticking her neck out is not working." What happens if Newt runs?, I ask. "He can't do it without me," she replies. "I told him if I'm not in agreement, fine, it's easy" --she giggles at her naughtiness. "I just go on the air the next day, and I undermine everything..."

On “soldiers for credibility” and the tug of war over truth.

The life and sudden death of NASCAR’s Dick Trickle.

On the life, legacy, and last days of Muammar Qaddafi.

The evolution of currency as “a complete abstraction.”

The art and science (or lack thereof) of water dowsing.

In the middle of a new drought, looking back at a drowned California town.

The stolen youth of Lorenzo Montoya.

An oral history of Nirvana ‘Unplugged.’

The Giant Pacific Octopus is, in the words of a Seattle conservationist, a “glamour animal.” It is also tasty. Therein lies the conflict.

Oskar Groening, an SS officer whose duties included counting confiscated money, describes his time posted to Auschwitz.

Investigating a former NFL star’s new business: renting professional athletes to their biggest fans.