The 7th grader’s sext was meant to impress him. It nearly destroyed her.

Pvt. Felix Hall died in the only known murder of its kind on a U.S. military base.

The greatest stand-up of his generation is also his own worst enemy.

A story of truth, lies, and an American addiction.

“She scrolls, she waits. For that little notification box to appear.”

“Fast food and hedge funds. That’s where we’re going.”

Navigating life as a brilliant teenage girl.

White women between 25 and 55 have been dying at accelerating rates over the past decade. Anna Marrie Jones was one.

Philip Johnson was a promising musical prodigy. Then he stole a teacher’s prized Stradivarius.

After a flawed sexual assault investigation, a Naval Academy instructor made it his mission to prove he did nothing wrong. The discovery of a lost cell phone told a more complicated story.

The unexpected evolution of Olympic medalist Debi Thomas.

Chris Earnshaw began taking photographs of Washington, D.C. more than 40 years ago. By the time he paid a visit to a museum to tout his work, he had in his possession—in plastic bags and filing drawers—3,000 Polaroids of a city long gone.

Inside the Republican Party’s bizarre, tumultuous 2015.

The delicate process of telling a ten-year-old she is HIV-positive.

A trailer and the people who lived with Dylann Roof in it before he killed nine people in a Charleston church.

A small town in Nebraska promised a warm welcome to a family of Katrina evacuees. It didn’t last.

How an entire industry built itself convincing lead-paint poisoning victims to sign over settlement payments for a fraction of what they’re worth.

After a lab linked to him was raided, James Jeffrey Bradstreet’s body was found with a bullet wound to the chest. His death was ruled a suicide, but other theories abound.

A casino failed to save Tunica, Mississippi.

The travails of mattress salesmen on one of the busiest weekends of the year.

The case of the disappearing Pappy Van Winkle bourbon.

Doping is a problem for equine sports, too.

One woman’s 407 mile journey to have an abortion.

Harsh sentences have given us an aging prison population, and all the medical problems that come with age are beginning to choke the system.

Gerry Pickens took a paycut to join the police department in tiny, overwhelmingly white Orting, Washington. Fired less than a year later, he’s now suing the town for enough to break it.