Pope Benedict XVI’s post-retirement presence in the Vatican has set the stage for a conflict that threatens to split the Catholic Church into two.

Investors all over the world fell for the schemes of the man who called himself Khalid bin al-Saud. But the truth turned out to be more incredible than the lie.

An oral history of the women who transformed Rolling Stone in the mid-70s.

At a South Korean laboratory, a once-disgraced doctor is replicating hundreds of deceased pets for the rich and famous.

“For him, I was a blot on a spectacular ascent. For me, it was the opposite.”

Life as Steve Jobs's daughter when he denied being your dad.

A comprehensive history of the case against the Menendez brothers, built primarily on secret audio recording made by their self-promoting therapist.

In short order, eight gay men in Texas were murdered by teenage boys.

Tim Berners-Lee, the man who created the World Wide Web, has some regrets.

How the women of U.S. Gymnastics found their voice.

“As an added bonus, she paid for everything.”

A profile of then-First Lady Barbara Bush, published just before the 1992 presidential election. The lede: “Even Barbara Bush’s stepmother is afraid of her.”

Pitcairn Island is impossibly remote, populated by descendants of a ship of British mutineers. Their population would not be revealed to the outside world until allegations of a culture of child molestation and rape that led back generations.

Inside the worst U.S. maritime disaster in decades.

The playwright’s forgotten son.

On the star who is re-writing the rules for the next generation.

The story of Theranos.

When her son was sentenced to 25 years for Brooklyn’s 2003 “grid kid” slaying, Doreen Quinn Giuliano was sure he’d been wrongfully convicted. To prove it, she went undercover, testing her sanity, her marriage, and the justice system.

Twenty years later, the author looks back.

The many identities of Andrew Cunanan, Gianni Versace’s murderer.

When Clark Rockefeller snatched his daughter during a custody dispute, what the D.A. called “the longest con I’ve seen in my professional career” came unraveled, and the trail led to bones buried in a California backyard.

Deep Throat, unmasked.

The not-so-secret sex parties of Silicon Valley.

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.

Melania Trump’s life as First Lady.

On the promise of 23-year-old Nicholas Cleves, who died in the bike path attack in New York.