Inside an animal-lover civil war.

A profile of Stevie Nicks.

The battle over stop-and-frisk within the NYPD’s ranks.

The era of personal space travel finally arrives.

He was a hedge-funder with a coke problem. She liked to drink and was thrice-divorced before they got married. When the police arrived, she was clutching his dead body in the shallow end of their pool. She would soon be accused of murder—not by the cops, but her Internet psychic.

A profile of the almost-president.

Dinner with the novelist, the book critic and “Myshkin, a 14-year-old female dachshund who is deaf but decidedly not mute.”

In Ramapo, New York, the immigrant community and the growing population of Hasidic Jews had eyed each increasing wariness for years. Then the Hasidim took over the public schools, schools their children do not attend, and proceeded to gut them.

A serial killer attempts to donate an organ.

Inside the DIY world of synthetic drugs.

Aaron Greene and Morgan Gliedman were young and in love and pregnant and partial to heroin and living in a Village apartment with a lot of heavy weaponry lying about. Then they were arrested, and their stories started to change.

A profile of Frank Lucas, whose life was the basis for the film American Gangster, decades after his days as a kingpin.

A profile of former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford, who is running for office four years after his affair with an Argentine journalist became national news.

How the borough bounced back.

On Cecilia Chang, the St. John’s fundraiser who committed suicide after being convicted of fraud, and the university administrators who benefited from her crime.

A profile of the “smart person’s” astrologer, and the people who believe in horopscopes.

A profile of 23-year-old Leonardo DiCaprio (and his rowdy crew).

A profile of Christine Quinn, odds-on favorite to be the next mayor of New York City.

The science behind why high school sucks.

On the casting process for New York’s cult leader-like spin instructors.

How Tide became a black market currency.

A dispatch from The National Review’s post-election cruise.

A profile of Beck on the eve of his new album and nearly 20 years after the release of “Loser.”

A father’s life, one year after the death of his three daughters in a fire.

In Colorado and beyond, a negotiated surrender in the war on drugs.