The doctors, patient, and ethics behind the experiment.

Since 9/11, the United States has spent $1 trillion on national security. An investigation into whether it has worked.

“Poor white Americans’ current crisis shouldn’t have caught the rest of the country as off guard as it has.”

The daily life of Saddam Hussein.

A murder case in Los Angeles, cold since the late ’80s, heats up thanks to breakthroughs in forensic science and leads detectives to “one of the unlikeliest murder suspects in the city’s history.”

A physiological theory of mental illness.

At 33, Wendy Brown stole her daughter’s name, grabbed a pair of pom-poms, and went back to high school. Then she went to jail.

An ancient document suggests that Jesus had a wife. But an investigation into its origins leads to … Florida.

A short history of leisure.

Once viewed as a forensic “silver bullet,” DNA evidence is coming under fire.

“Nearly half of Americans would have trouble finding $400 to pay for an emergency. I’m one of them.”

Alaska brims with stories of people who vanish and are given up for dead. Once in a while, the dead return.

How the president thinks about America’s role in the world.

In 1980, four American nuns were murdered in El Salvador. This is the story of how a young American official stationed there singlehandedly found the culprits.

Excerpted from Weakness and Deceit: America and El Salvador's Dirty War

On the battle between Google, Apple, Uber, and Tesla to own the driverless car market, which could be worth more than $30 billion a year.

Why are so many teenagers killing themselves in Palo Alto?

How a Pulitzer-finalist, 34-part-series of investigative journalism vanishes from the internet.

How to plan for the most serious of possible natural disasters.

She stumbled into communist circles, and it nearly derailed her career.

“The central conflict of domestic life right now is not men versus women, mothers versus fathers. It is family versus money.”

The life of Adolf Tolkachev, Soviet dissident and CIA spy.

Two summers spent teaching and living in the hills of Tennessee.

When Jeb Bush married his wife, it was the bravest thing he’d ever done. Her role in his life is still a mystery.

“Here is what I would like for you to know: In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body—it is heritage.”

If jobs as we’ve known them for a century are going away, what will replace them?