On the moral responsibility to break unjust laws.

“I decided that if he would not tell us his story, then I would.”

Peggy Jo Tallas spent most of her adult life doing two things: taking care of her ailing mother and robbing bank after bank dressed as a pudgy, bearded cowboy.

On surfer girls in Maui; the story that led to the film Blue Crush.

When Sonia Vallabh lost her mother to a rare disease, then was diagnosed with it herself, she and her husband set out to find a cure.

The excerpts from a diary of an anonymous Russian special-forces officer who served twenty tours of duty in Chechnya during the Second Chechen War (1999-2009).

The story of a bank robber who risked his life to put a killer on death row.

The agonies of being overweight—or running a diet company—in a culture that likes to pretend it only cares about health, not size.

There was no doubt: Jeremy Gross had brutally murdered a convenience store clerk. All that was left to decide was his punishment. Death or life without parole? The story of a capital murder trial, as seen from the jury box.

Five hundred feet below ground with Ohio coal miners.

Alex drew his school’s mascot during class.Then he was suspended, arrested and deported. How high schools have embraced the Trump administration’s crackdown on MS-13 and destroyed immigrant students’ American dreams.

A profile of Marlon Brando, 33, holed up in a hotel suite in Kyoto where he was filming Sayonara.

A charming assistant funeral home director named Bernie Tiede murders a wealthy widow, keeps her in a freezer for months, finally gets caught, and still has the town's sympathy as his case goes to trial. The story that became Richard Linklater's Bernie.

How John, a father of 14, lost Christmas.

The author spends time with the reporters fighting to keep news alive in an age when the forces they cover are working equally hard to destroy them.

Wealthy businessman Merv Bodnarchuk put together the dream team of curling. Then he put himself in the lineup.

He helped build an artists’ utopia. Now he faces trial for 36 deaths there.

Hitman-for-hire darknet sites are all scams. But some people turn up dead nonetheless.

A profile of Edna Buchanan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning crime reporter for the Miami Herald during its heyday.

The story of $800 million hedge fund fraudster Boaz Manor who led the alleged $31 million Blockchain Terminal ICO after disguising his identity with a beard.

The making of Blonde on Blonde in Nashville.

A profile of Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

African Elephants have been killing people, raping rhinos, and exhibiting uncharacteristically aggressive behavior. An investigation reveals deep similarities between elephants’ and humans’ reaction to childhood trauma.

On the start of the high school football season in Odessa, Texas. An adaptation published alongside the release of Bissinger’s 1990 book of the same name, which led to the movie and the show.