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Projectionist provocateur Robin Bell lights up the night.

An elite group of forensic scientists, charged with finding hidden human remains, nears retirement age.

Kurdish revolutionaries helped the U.S. expel the Islamic State from its capital city. Will we soon abandon them?

What motivates men like Harvey Weinstein?

At home with the liberated former House speaker.

In the weeks after Davis shot the six cops, faked out the costly, nationwide manhunt for 17 days, and held a major portion of the NYPD to a standoff in the Twin Parks Houses near Fordham Road, huge black-and-white mug shot-like photos of a starry-eyed, baby-faced killer adorned the front pages of the tabloids under headlines like “They Won’t Take Me Alive” and the local news anchors excitedly invoked his name at the top of every show.

A child genius living in poverty, her mother, and the benefactor who became their tormenter.

Some players, from the start, were up front about admitting it was a hoax. Others insisted, to their graves, that the story was true, that the Lutz family had been haunted by something. It’s just that the something may not have been paranormal at all.

The behind-closed-doors story.

On attempting to quit people and stay home.

A visit to a Trump rally in Ohio.

North Idaho has become one of the most desirable places in the West for conservatives to relocate. So why is the local Republican party tearing itself apart?

How Shane Battier could score zero points in an NBA game and still be the most important player on the floor.

Inside the empire of Botox.

New love, lost love, and origins.

A conversation with former government employees who left their posts after Trump’s election.

The Syrian refugee said his name was Paul, and that he was 16 years old. The truth was much more complicated.

Barry Jones has spent the last 22 years on death row for the murder of a 4-year-old girl. Prosecutors have fought against reopening his case even as the basis for his conviction has fallen apart.

Following the fraudsters who use gods and myth to steal from the elderly.

A tour of Manhattan’s nightlife.

He had the gear, the charm, the trail stories. He found his marks in outdoorsy women.

How a perfect vision of mother hood hurts moms.

The country’s elites are desperate to figure out what they got wrong in 2016. But can they handle the truth?

“GOD Almighty, you can get killed in Baltimore—for no reason at all.”