Jane de Oliveira set out to protect the world’s largest rain forest from the corporate interests that are burning it to the ground. Then the armed men showed up.

And unraveled behind the scenes.

A profile of Erik Prince, then the CEO of America’s largest and most controversial mercenary force, Blackwater, who happened to be a C.I.A. agent.

Randy Quaid and his wife Evi have fled to Canada and are living in their car. They are seeking asylum from the menace of the “Hollywood Star Whackers.”

Ari Emanuel’s failure to launch.

How the Ebola outbreak spread.

How the media and law enforcement fingered the wrong man for the 1996 Olympic Park bombing.

With its cheap geothermal energy and low crime rate, Iceland has become the world’s leading miner of digital currency. Then the crypto-crooks showed up.

“This is the remarkable, true story of a rich white male celebrity who abused his power and then apologized for it.”

How NBC killed its Weinstein story.

The untold story of Patriots owner Robert Kraft’s two visits to the Orchids of Asia Day Spa.

An oral history of Lilith Fair.

At 25, Stephen Glass was the most sought-after young reporter in the nation’s capital, producing knockout articles for magazines ranging from The New Republic to Rolling Stone. Trouble was, he made things up—sources, quotes, whole stories—in a breathtaking web of deception that emerged as the most sustained fraud in modern journalism.

A mid-boom critique of New York City’s high-priced, mostly glass condo buildings.

A profile of the author on the eve on his debut novel, The Water Dancer.

How Saudi Arabia makes dissidents disappear.

On the influencer moms of Byron Bay.

On the revolutionaries, highly-paid negotiators, former spies, foreign businessmen and their families, who all played roles in the massive Colombian kidnap and ransom industry during its 1990s heyday.

On excess, wealth, and teenage love.

Riots in Athens, the shadowy Vatopaidi monastery, and a quarter million dollars in debt for every citizen. Welcome to Greece.

The untold story behind the mysterious disappearance of Fan Bingbing, the world’s biggest movie star.

It started with black market rations and ended with “the wedding of the century.”

Inside Facebooks war on hate speech.

A profile of André Leon Talley.

At the end, Theranos was overrun by a dog defecating in the boardroom, nearly a dozen law firms on retainer, and a C.E.O. grinning through her teeth about an implausible turnaround.