The saga of Naji Mansour.

Cory Booker, Chris Christie, and Mark Zuckerberg had a plan to reform Newark’s schools. They got an education.

A profile of Uruguay President José Mujica, a former revolutionary who’s been shot six times, was imprisoned for 14 years and, since taking office, has shunned the presidential mansion in favor of a small farm while legalizing gay marriage, abortion and marijuana.

“Successful brand identities in the House and on talk radio have never before relied on such similar skill sets — there has never been so much politics in media, and media in politics.”

An investigation into allegations that Rwandan President Paul Kagame is assassinating exiled dissidents.

At a high-profile Libertarian conference, everyone agrees government should be smaller, but what should replace it is much more contested.

Life after a scandal.

Barack Obama wanted to endorse gay marriage on his own timetable. Joe Biden had other plans.

On the mechanics of New Jersey state politics.

A case for why race has been the real story of the Obama presidency all along.

An investigation into the ill-fated text messaging platform ZunZuneo.

The case against Jonathan Pollard, an American who spied for Israel.

Leland Yee was a career San Francisco politician known for championing open government and gun control. For the last few years, he was also the main target of an elaborate undercover investigation, during which he traded political favors for cash, tried to sell $2 million worth of weapons to a medical marijuana kingpin and worked closely with well-known Chinatown gangster named Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow.

Dick Cheney and the political history of warrantless surveillance.

James Reston’s problematic proximity to the powerful.

On the campaign trail with Richard Nixon.

In an old mine an hour north of Pittsburgh, 600 federal employees manage paperwork for the government’s retirement system. By hand. On paper. Without computers. The same exact way they always have.

On Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps, who died this week.

On the campaign trail with Florida’s malleable ex-governor.

A profile of the vice president.

The author gets a crash course in health care pricing after having his urethra fixed.

On the dueling propagandists of Kiev and Moscow.

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

Over the course of 25 years, he’s repeatedly toyed with the idea of running for president and now, maybe, governor of New York. With all but his closest apostles finally tired of the charade, even the Donald himself has to ask, what’s the point? On the plane and by the pool with the man who will not be king.

The murder of a rapper amid the rise of Greece’s fascist party.