Henry Orenstein survived three years in concentration camps before creating Transformers and poker cameras.

An investigation into how the NYPD responds to sexual assault cases.

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Somewhere in the desert, buried under a mountain of sand and rock, is an ancient shipwreck. Maybe.

It was the middle of the day in the steamy Philippine jungle and the sun was merciless. Director Francis Ford Coppola, dressed in rumpled white Mao pajamas, was slowly making his way upriver in a motor launch.

The stories of women who “are operating at unprecedented levels on every floor of CIA headquarters and throughout its far-flung global outposts.”

What happened to the Afghan timber worker after a 2005 battle was made into a book and feature film.

More than 15% of Detroit’s adults have asthma, and 82% of black students go to schools in the most polluted parts of the city.

Corey Arthur made headlines after being arrested and convicted in connection with the 1997 murder of his high school teacher. But the story is much more complicated than that.

Life and death with the young and radicalized.

Inside “a surreal world of pseudo-scientific methods and jargon, traumatizing psychodramas and nude cuddling with counselors.”

How a traveling medical technician managed to steal narcotics from hospitals, infecting at least 45 people with hepatitis C in the process.

A steep discount on pharmaceutical drugs leads to a mass-murder case.

What one sergeant says he saw before the alleged suicides of three detainees.

Woodward and Bernstein’s other anonymous sources.

How celebrity-led humanitarian aid exacerbated a crisis.

On the Cold War and the Space Race.

When adults like Billy Smolinski go missing, it’s hard to get the authorities involved.

How the Pentagon makes “Koch Industries look like an organic farm” when it comes to toxic water contamination.

How divisions between Nigeria’s Muslim North and Christian South resulted in the birth of terror’s most ruthless movement.

Possible clues about Lincoln’s murder in the unlikeliest place.

The catfishing of Chris Andersen.

Somaly Mam’s harrowing story of her own flight from sexual servitude and the stories of hundreds of girls she rescued from Cambodian brothels brought her fame and helped raise millions for her non-profit. Does it matter if none or few of the stories are true?

Tourism at the site of the worst nuclear disaster in history.

Is the anonymous, reclusive inventor of Bitcoin this 64-year-old man in Los Angeles?