How did a couple who built an empire of yoga studios and homes with “living walls” end up as pandemic villains?

Interviews, documents and jailhouse recordings reveal a clearer picture of the life and death of the 26-year-old emergency room technician.

The author, on book tour when the pandemic set in, reflects on what could have been worse—and what could be better.

The Mews, a father-son team of orthodontists, have an unusual theory about the source of crooked teeth — one that has earned them a following in some of the darker corners of the internet.

Each year, California’s child protective services agencies remove thousands of kids from their homes. The story of how some parents decided to fight back.

From 1968-1973, the three teenage Wiggin sisters, guided by a domineering father, played their strange music at New Hampshire ballrooms and recorded a single album. The Philosophy of the World LP goes for over $500 today, but the intervening decades have not been kind to the Wiggins.

The case for paying college athletes.

“A legend is growing in Nepal, where people say a meditating boy hasn’t eaten or drunk in seven months. He barely moves, just sits under a tree, still as a stone. It’s impossible, some say. Is it a miracle? A hoax? Let’s find out.”

How the fashion industry collapsed.

How the FBI manufactures phony crimes to arrest so-called terrorists.

A profile of the author at 84.

“If you could put your own crew together and rob the biggest drug dealer you know, who would that drug dealer be?”

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

For the first time, data scientists have modeled how climate refugees might move across international borders. This is what they found.

Five hundred feet below ground with Ohio coal miners.

Sounding a warning on pesticides.

The lives of elevators.

When a car careened onto a baseball field in Sanford, Maine, during a Babe Ruth game in 2018, it set in motion a true-crime mystery 50 years in the making.

The soul of an octopus.

Reckoning with the American flag.

In a Los Angeles suburb where schools and parents faltered, the American Dream was replaced by drugs, neo-Nazism, and despair.

Banned in Russia and cut by Condé Nast from the GQ website, this story (presented in full) details the intrigue behind the Moscow apartment bombings, blamed on Chechens, that allowed Putin to rapidly ascend to power.

In 1980, a bankrupt gambler came up with a plan to get his money back. He built an incredibly complex bomb, one that was impossible to defuse and that only he knew how to move, and snuck it into a Lake Tahoe casino with an extortion note demanding $3 million. Part of the plan worked. Part of it did not.

Inside an IRL cult built on Facebook memes and semen-drinking.

A prostitution and sex trafficking ring operated on the outskirts of a U.S. Navy base in Bahrain and may have involved 15% of the sailors stationed there.