The origins of a misplaced panic.

How an actor becomes a Trump-era activist.

How can people who once moved as one ultra-religious organism become such dramatically different adults?

Online startups can send you pills to cure anxiety. But is it safe to buy them?

How the most expensive and unstoppable invasive plant crisis inspires madness and panic.

How the former Fear Factor host’s podcast became an essential platform for “freethinkers” who hate the left.

“In 1998, I helped convict two men of murder. I’ve regretted it ever since.”

Six women tell their stories.

How the godfather of “fratire” went from chronicling his drunken sexual conquests to ghostwriting Tiffany Haddish’s memoir.

The story behind Tony Kushner’s examination of AIDS and homosexuality.

How a 20-year-old from the land of fake news tricked Martina Navratilova, Serena Williams, and the BBC.

A profile of the radio legend who helped launch the career of Ira Glass and many more.

The rise and fall of the “most far-flung, most organized, and most brazen example of homosexual extortion in the nation’s history.”

Inside the campaign to canonize the fire department chaplain who died on September 11.

On the mysterious disappearance of a beloved coding legend (and his code) with stops along the way for a short history of programming languages, an ethnography of code-based communities, and an inquiry into what it means to “die young without artifact.”

Three killings, three young accused killers, and the two homicide detectives that link them.

A near future with racial voting restrictions and questionnaires.

The American medical experiment in Guatemala that left hundreds with STDs.

A mysterious cache of documents could prove that a man serving a life sentence for homicide was framed by corrupt Alabama authorities—if the documents, and the man, can be believed.

After two people are found dead in Yellowstone National Park, a team of investigators tracks down the unlikely culprit: a grizzly bear.

Colossal corruption. Political chaos. The worst recession in its history. How a once-booming nation fell.

How a sexual assault case in Idaho involving refugee children morphed into an anti-refugee frenzy.

Trump’s key adviser is a lobbyist known for reinventing tyrants.

What it’s like to write about a candidate who hates you.

The unexpected history of a name.