The twisting paths that brought together Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald.

Brazil’s restless youth in the lead-up to the World Cup.

A political history of Donald Rumsfeld.

On Silvio Berlusconi’s hedonism.

Berlusconi is Italy’s waning Hugh Hefner, alternately reviled and admired for his loyalty to his own appetites—except that he’s supposed to be running the country.

Lyndon Baines Johnson in retirement.

A tour of our greatest conspiracy theories.

Notes from a Black Panther fundraiser on Park Avenue.

The political liabilities of Barack Obama’s self-possession.

How living off food stamps is making South Texans obese but leaving them hungry.

A visit to Glenn Greenwald’s house in Rio.

President Bush’s strange friendship with Vladimir Putin.

Ignored early warnings, political pressure, and a botched Obamacare rollout.

Inside the N.S.A.’s mission to spy on just about everyone.

He’d blown the Denver debate. Now he was on the verge of blowing the second and risking his reelection. “I just don’t know if I can do this,” Obama told his team. The story of how they turned things around, excerpted from Double Down: Game Change 2012.

Ending a pregnancy in the most “pro-life” state in America.

An examination of the Minutemen movement and death on the border.

The homeless population of New York City is higher than it’s been in decades. Nobody seems to notice.

The White House’s unprecedented crackdown on reporters.

A self-published author of pick-up guides visits the “pacifist nanny state” of Denmark and finds the social safety interferes with his seduction strategies.

Why a freshman congressman can’t get his bill passed.

The rise of the Night Wolves, a Kremlin-backed biker gang, and what it says about the Russian political condition.

A young wonk is handed the budget of the world’s smallest republic.

Rosario Crocetta is a reform-minded leader in a highly corrupt place that hates change. That’s only one of the reasons his life is in danger.

Doug Band gets close to, then falls out with, Bill and Hillary.

A profile of the first-term senator.