ShyShy Pate has been missing for 19 years, but you’ve probably never heard of her.

William Regnery II spent almost 20 years funding the racist right. It finally paid off.

“You have to ask for food. You have to ask to go use the bathroom. … [Kelly] is a master at mind control. … He is a puppet master.”

A profile of Chuck Blazer, “the man who built — and bilked — American soccer.”

A profile of the writer.

A college student accused a powerful man of rape. Then she became a suspect.

Fourteen people connected to resistance of Vladimir Putin have died on British soil. Every case has been closed, the deaths deemed of natural causes. American intelligence believes they were all assassinated by the Kremlin.

The elite Iraqi “Golden Division” was trained by the US to hunt terrorists. But now they’re locked in a brutal street battle for control of Mosul.

After decades at the fringe, conspiracy theorist and Infowars host Alex Jones helped usher a president into office. Now, the only person standing in Jones’ way is Jones.

Transformed bodies on a transformed earth.

Making sense of the CEO’s very public tour of America, which feels like a political campaign minus the politics.

The story of 1982’s Making Love.

How Montana became home to the highest concentration of hate groups in the nation.

Anna Nicole Smith molded herself into an American fantasy. When that fantasy fell apart, we blamed her for it.

A family defends the life of a man who died and became a national punchline.

An investigation into 62 incidents caught on video shows how cops are incentivized to lie — and why they get away with it.

ProDoula wants to revolutionize the touchy-feely doula profession — and make millions of dollars along the way.

An investigation into America’s largest chain of psychiatric hospitals, where patients are held against their will to maximize profits.

Throughout 2015 and 2016, amid a series of conversations I had socially with gay and bisexual men about chemsex, new, darker elements to this scene began to emerge; details from unconnected participants that mirrored each other – the same incidents, the same crimes, sometimes even the same culprits. Together they formed a picture: that beneath the surface reports about chemsex – the endless hedonism, the irresistibly intense sex – there is a much blacker sea, unmapped.

Memories and violence resurface at a high school reunion.

A former WikiLeaks employee on the motivations driving his old boss.

What do you do after you’ve already been the world’s youngest dictator?

An examination of the continued fascination with the 6-year-old beauty queen, 20 years after her murder.

On ISDS, the parallel legal universe created by international treaties that allows corporations to sue countries and escape punishment.

Emily Weiss has reinvented herself from reality TV villain to patron saint of dewy skin, no-makeup makeup, and no-commerce commerce. Why young women — and investors — are buying in.