In postwar Japan, a single-minded focus on rapid economic growth helped erode family ties. Now, a generation of elderly Japanese are dying alone.

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

"The couple tried to make them leave. They complained to the police. When that didn’t work, they tried to build friendships, hoping they could charm the squatters into respecting their property. Sometimes, they hid in their house. For three years, the tension built. Until one sweltering summer night in 2016."

The story of the Grenfell Tower fire.

Boko Haram, climate change, predatory armies, and extreme hunger are converging on a marginalized population in Central Africa.

A jailhouse interview.

A journey to Disney World with kids and weed.

An on-the-ground investigation reveals that the U.S.-led battle against ISIS — hailed as the most precise air campaign in history — is killing far more Iraqi civilians than the coalition has acknowledged.

“It was a tiny incident in itself, but it gave me a better glimpse than I had had before of the real nature of imperialism–the real motives for which despotic governments act.” Memories of a British soldier in Burma.

With key U.S.D.A. programs—from food stamps to meat inspection, to grants and loans for rural development, to school lunches—under siege, the agency’s greatest problem is that even the people it helps most don’t know what it does.

When she died in 1952, author Margaret Wise Brown left the rights to Goodnight Moon to a nine-year-old neighbor named Albert Clarke. The book became a classic. Clarke, living entirely off the royalties, became a deadbeat.

A child genius living in poverty, her mother, and the benefactor who became their tormenter.

How Shane Battier could score zero points in an NBA game and still be the most important player on the floor.

The rise and fall of a chubby Idaho pizza delivery boy turned weed kingpin.

The rise and fall of the “most far-flung, most organized, and most brazen example of homosexual extortion in the nation’s history.”

In 1956, an ocean liner named the Andrea Doria sank off the coast of Cape Cod. Half a century later, deep-sea divers—the author included—were still risking their lives to explore it.

On the insanity of America’s gun laws.

‘Your Black Muslim Bakery’ commanded vast influence in Oakland, offering jobs and self-empowerment to ex-cons , until this story revealed a history of incest-rapes and kidnappings. Another journalist investigating the story was later murdered.

A profile of Ernest Hemingway.

On former Knicks savior Stephon Marbury and his post-NBA life playing in China.

“The foundation of Donald Trump’s presidency is the negation of Barack Obama’s legacy.”

What one Alabama town’s attempt to secede from its school district tells us about the fragile progress of racial integration in America.

The story of the “Barefoot Bandit,” a teenage fugitive on the run.

The story of September 26, 2014, the day 43 Mexican students went missing.

In 1973 a ragtag group of Texans scrounged up $60,000 and created a film so violent and visionary that it shocked the world. But the story behind the making of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is even stranger than the film.