The surprising papacy of Jorge Mario Bergoglio.

Young neo-Nazis attempt to rebrand hate.

A profile of Luis Suarez.

“We are invited to listen, but never to truly join the narrative, for to speak as the slave would, to say that we are as happy for the Civil War as most Americans are for the Revolutionary War, is to rupture the narrative.”

How a 26-year-old cocktail waitress ended up running a private weekly poker game for some of Hollywood’s highest rollers.

Father and son bond by hopping freight trains.

On what we see and what we don’t.

On the Becket Fund, a little-known firm that has become the leading force in the fight for corporations seeking a religious exemption from covering employees’ birth control.

Eddie Griffin made it to the NBA. Then his life began to unravel.

The gangs of Brooklyn’s Brownsville, an area with the higest concentration of public housing in America.

The Harvard Law professsor on billionaires, politics and Uber.

A profile of Ken Regan, a computer scientist, chess master, and world champion at detecting cheaters in chess.

“If I’m writing a thing based on something that happened, it often starts to become fun for me when I see there’s an opportunity to make myself look even more of a jerk than I am in real life.”

A flood-fueled adventure on a forgotten stretch of the Colorado.

“The case of Lisl Auman, who first wrote me from prison three years ago, is so rotten and wrong and shameful that I feel dirty just for knowing about it, and so should you.”

On “the Negro’s ambivalent relation to the Jew.”

An interview with Peter Matthiessen.

A former Eagle Scout attends the National Boy Scout Jamboree, aka Jambo, held at a brand-new, $100 million scouting wonderland called The Summit.

One woman’s ghastly dollhouse dioramas turned crime scene investigation into a science.

Possible clues about Lincoln’s murder in the unlikeliest place.

The author remembers his stepfather, E.B. White.

A memoir of Santa Cruz.

The railroad foreman’s brain was pierced by a tamping iron. He lived to tell the tale.

An interview with Curtis Mayfield.

Coming out in a country where that can get you killed.