On the royal family.

On being waterboarded.

On the cult of Winston Churchill and his legacy in the aftermath of 9/11.

An early foreign report on the state of the African continent.

An excerpt from his memoir Hitch-22, about his dreadful years at boarding school.

An excerpt from his book on the 1988 presidential campaign, one of the great pieces of political reporting in American history.

Cramer’s most famous piece of writing, a profile of an aging Ted Williams.

How Jerry Lee Lewis, whose nickname was “The Killer,” got away with murdering 25-year-old Shawn Michelle Stevens, his fifth wife.

Cramer on his hometown of Baltimore and its hero, Cal Ripken Jr.

A profile of a Montana sheriff in the midst of a manhunt.

Inside the lives of Sri Lanka’s Tamils as they emerge from a multi-decade war that defined and nearly destroyed them.

Getting the married man back to her place was the easy part.

A insider account of the British real-estate business from 20-year industry veteran.

In tragedy’s wake, a man tries methylenedioxymethamphetamine.

Serial infidelity is not all it’s cracked up to be. For one thing, it’s really expensive.

“And finally, to girls everywhere, I am with you. On nights when you feel alone, I am with you. When people doubt you or dismiss you, I am with you. I fought everyday for you. So never stop fighting, I believe you.”

Using different email addresses and a lot of exclamation points, teenager Jonathan Lebed worked finance message boards in the morning before school and made nearly a million bucks. Then he made the head of the S.E.C. look like a fool.

Sitting alone in his San Jose office, Michael Burry saw the subprime bubble before anyone else. So he convinced Wall Street to let him bet on it, even though few were betting on him (a story excerpted from The Big Short).

On Jim Clark and the culture of Silicon Valley before the dot-com crash (the story that lead to The New New Thing).

Riots in Athens, the shadowy Vatopaidi monastery, and a quarter million dollars in debt for every citizen. Welcome to Greece.

The original article on Billy Beane and the Oakland A’s, published a month before the release of Moneyball.