A Montana sheriff and a manhunt in the mountains.

“Private prisons are shrouded in secrecy. I took a job as a guard to get inside—then things got crazy.”

With The BFG, the filmmaker tackles childhood’s possibilities and terrors once again.

A study of the Mississippi River, its history, and efforts by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to hold it in place.

Three days, 64 people shot, six of them dead: Memorial Day weekend in Chicago.

A profile of Chloë Sevigny, 19-year-old It Girl.

Behind a Muslim community in northern Wyoming — and 20 percent of all Muslims in the state — lies one very enterprising man.

Libertarian, futurist, billionaire: a profile of Peter Thiel.

“It’s the American view that everything has to keep climbing: productivity, profits, even comedy. No time for reflection. No time to contract before another expansion. No time to grow up. No time to fuck up. No time to learn from your mistakes. But that notion goes against nature, which is cyclical.”

A profile of the man who helped invent the modern art of presidential spin and came to embody the blurry line between journalist and government official.

A trip to the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles.

Calvin Stanley is a fourth-grader at Cross Country Elementary School. He rides a bike, watches TV, plays video games and does just about everything other 10-year-old boys do. Except see.

How a burst blood vessel transformed the mind of a deliberate, controlled chiropractor into that of an utterly unfiltered, massively prolific artist.

How two love-struck, type A high schoolers almost got away with murder.

On the talent, ego, and late father of Bryant Gumbel.

Last February, John Jonchuck Jr. dropped his 5-year-old daughter off a bridge to her death. This is the story of what happened, and what didn’t, in the years before the murder made headlines.

How PCC, once an inmate soccer team and now Brazil’s most notorious prison gang, coordinated seven days of riots throughout São Paulo using mobile phones.

When James Brown died on Christmas Day 2006, he left behind a fortune worth tens, maybe hundreds, of millions of dollars. The problem is, he also left behind fourteen children, sixteen grandchildren, eight mothers of his children, several mistresses, thirty lawyers, a former manager, an aging dancer, a longtime valet, and a sister who’s really not a sister but calls herself the Godsister of Soul anyway.

Bobby Fischer unravels before the 1972 World Chess Championships, a.k.a. the “Match of the Century.”

An investigative reporter goes undercover at a dealership to learn the tricks of the trade, of which there are many.

Why people stampede, and what can be done to prevent “crowd disasters.”

He was an 18 year old Marine bound for Iraq. She was a high school senior in West Virginia. They grew intimate over IM. His dad also started contacting her.  No one was who they claimed to be and it led to a murder.

Less than a week after Katrina, Michael Lewis goes home to New Orleans.

Surfing San Francisco with a true believer.