A profile of Ken Feinberg, lawyer who specializes in determining compensation after tragedies and disasters.

The author, who died last week, tells the story of his guns.

Finding out your loved one is a notorious fugitive.

The inquiry into a nurse’s suicide after she was on the receiving end of a crank call.

Playing tourist in the isolated nation.

The fight to save a “delicious gold mine.”

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

An older brother’s murder and its aftermath.

A mother-son bus trip from Florida to Juarez.

On personal responsibility and privilege.

Monica Lewinsky’s post-scandal life in New York City.

Newton Murray got his first job in 1926. He’s seldom missed a day of work since.

On paleopathologist Gino Fornaciari and his investigations into murders from centuries past.

The murder of an Olympic champion and the autopsy that shook a city.

Reporting on drug-resistant tuberculosis across Papua New Guinea – and then contracting the disease.

The mysterious life and death of Dow B. Hover, the man who ran New York’s electric chair.

Whitewater rafting down a Chilean river with a movie star and the Kennedys.

In 1913, a ship carrying 31 explorers got stuck in the Arctic ice, hundreds of miles from civilization. The leader left to carry on the expedition. Others stuck with the boat. Help wouldn’t come for a year.

A personal history of class in America.

The hunt for a secretive network of British men obsessed with accumulating and cataloguing the eggs of rare birds.

On the film The Act of Killing, in which the actual perpetrators of a 1966-1966 Indonesian genocide recreate their own actions for the camera, and what it can tell us about our memories of the Vietnam War.

Attending the Afterlife Awareness Conference.

Encounters with Albert DeSalvo, the self-confessed Boston Strangler.

On the origins of The Village People.