A profile of Jordan at 50.

Eleven months after Sandy Hook, Newtown’s mourning remains incalculable, especially that of the parents who lost their children. And the influx of sympathy—and money—has sometimes made the grieving more difficult rather than less.

Here is what happens when you cast Lindsay Lohan in your movie.

The haunted past of Amy Bishop, a University of Alabama neurobiologist who shot six colleagues during a staff meeting.

His brain and body shattered in a horrible accident as a young boy, Bret Dunlap thought just being able to hold down a job, keep an apartment, and survive on his own added up to a good enough life. Then he discovered running.

A year ago, Newtown was getting ready for Christmas. Priest, principal, police officer, bagel-shop owner—all were caught up in the bustle, planning everything from holiday concerts to D.U.I. checkpoints. On the anniversary of the school shooting in Connecticut that left 20 first-graders and six adults murdered, one way to grasp the full tragedy of this all-American town is by tracing the ordinary day that led up to it.

Undercover in an industrial slaughterhouse.

A pair of undercover journalists, a boatload of refugees, 200 miles of ocean and a journey that has claimed more than a thousand lives.

Day by day, a city at war with the regime collects its dead. [subscription required]

The Granite Mountain Hotshots, an outfit of professional wildland firefighters, had 20 members. On June 30, 19 of them lost their lives.

The multiple lives of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

At the Houston Police Department, a lax discipline system keeps negligent cops on the streets.

The story of a ship’s final voyage. [subscription required]

Searching for Dave Chappelle ten years after he left his own show.

It’s something we’ve all been meaning to do. The father-son bonding adventure. You know: The big fishing excursion, The road trip down Route 66. Last year, Wells Tower took a completely different approach with his dad: Burning Man, the world’s largest chemically enhanced self-expression festival. They went to witness the Slut Olympics. They went to see the art. They went to discover what draws 60,000 people to one of the least hospitable places on Earth. Then they set up camp and took off their clothes. And things got truly interesting.

Adventure and heartbreak at the edge of the earth.

Confronting the trauma of sexual abuse. [subscription required]

Uncovering my FBI file. [subscription required]

Doug Aitken’s tech-fueled, all-night, glow-in-the-dark, cross-country, pop-art train ride.

In a remote corner of the South China Sea, 105 nautical miles from the Philippines, lies a submerged reef the Filipinos call Ayungin.

“Oh, my God. This is going to be a huge one.”

How a group of hippie surfers and a former Spanish teacher built the largest weed-smuggling empire on the West Coast.

Deep anxiety about the ability to have children later in life plagues many women. But the decline in fertility over the course of a woman’s 30s has been oversold. Here’s what the statistics really tell us—and what they don’t.

The inside story of long-term criminal fraud at Ranbaxy, the Indian drug company that makes generic Lipitor for millions of Americans.

On the slaughter of songbirds migrating across the Mediterranean.

The use and abuse of civil forfeiture.

Why medical bills are killing us. [subscription required]