Inside the lives of Sri Lanka’s Tamils as they emerge from a multi-decade war that defined and nearly destroyed them.

Getting the married man back to her place was the easy part.

A insider account of the British real-estate business from 20-year industry veteran.

In tragedy’s wake, a man tries methylenedioxymethamphetamine.

Serial infidelity is not all it’s cracked up to be. For one thing, it’s really expensive.

“And finally, to girls everywhere, I am with you. On nights when you feel alone, I am with you. When people doubt you or dismiss you, I am with you. I fought everyday for you. So never stop fighting, I believe you.”

Life and debt as a young writer in New York.

Ninety grand in debt and wanderlust can be a powerful combination.

A stop on the author’s world tour of economic collapse.

How a comedy writer making $300,000 a year ended up homeless.

They make millions per year but, more often than not, lose it in retirement–78% of former NFL players, 60 percent of former NBA players, and even those in the MLB.

A former head writer for AV Club digs himself deep into debt, then gets out.

Auditing a bankrupt city.

A history of debt, bartering and money.

Two days after the Japanese tsunami, after the waves had left their destruction, as rescue workers searched the ruins, news came of an almost surreal survival: Miles out at sea, a man was found, alone, riding on nothing but the roof of his house.

Three teenage boys from a remote island decide to set sail after a night of drinking. They go missing for 51 days.

During WWII, a bomber crashes into the Pacific and the crewmen begin an epic battle against dehydration, exposure, and endless attacks by sharks. Adapted from Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken.

The Estonia was carrying 989 people when it sank on its way across the Baltic in September 1994. Only 140 lived.

Swept out by a riptide, a father and his autistic son find themselves in open water after dark.

The first extended telling of the story that would eventually become The Perfect Storm.

In 1992, a Chinese freighter tipped violently during a storm and dumped a load of plastic bath toys—7,200 red beavers, 7,200 green frogs, 7,200 blue turtles, and 7,200 yellow ducks—into the open sea.

A child’s obsession with slime; a fractured family.

The psychology, interactions, and sadness of a fringe NBA player.

A Las Vegas hustler hits his lowest point.

A European vacation, a quietly crumbling marriage.

After her husband’s disappearance, a woman bonds with her landlady.

Sex, the Constitution, and the Supreme Court.

Analysis of the trial from future Supreme Court justice.

Every law student knows John Brady’s name. But few know the story of the bumbling murder that ended in a landmark legal ruling.

The Supreme Court justice on gay rights, the problem with consensus, and the Devil.

In 1976, newly appointed Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens voted to reinstate capital punishment in the United States. Thirty years later, he argued that it’s unconstitutional. Here, he explains why he changed his mind.

How Chief Justice John Roberts pulled off Citizens United.

How Neil Gorsuch became the second-most-polarizing man in Washington.

On the combined force of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Virginia, a Tea Party stalwart.

No one argues before the Supreme Court more than Tommy Goldstein.

He is a coon hunter, a rich man, an ex-whiskey runner, a good old boy who hard-charges stock cars 175 m.p.h. Mother dog! He is the lead-footed chicken farmer from Ronda, the true vision of the New South.

Notes from a Black Panther fundraiser on Park Avenue.

Tom Wolfe on the development of ”New Journalism,” an unconventional reporting style which he helped to pioneer.

Americans learn to love themselves.

On June 4, 1989, the bodies of Jo, Michelle and Christe were found floating in Tampa Bay. This is the story of how Glen Moore and his detectives brought the killer to justice.

On the lifestyle of a fugitive retiree, and how it came to an end.

The search for a disgraced ex-LAPD officer bent on killing his former colleagues and their families.

It started as a bluebird New Year’s Day in Mount Rainier National Park. But when a gunman murdered a ranger and then fled back into the park’s frozen backcountry, every climber, skier, and camper became a suspect—and a potential victim.

A Montana sheriff and a manhunt in the mountains.

Can a writer disappear in America for a month with a $5,000 bounty on his head?

The search for Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

The making of Thelma & Louise.

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

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.

The articles that helped end Weinstein and start #MeToo.

“I have been having conversations about Harvey Weinstein’s history of sexual harassment for more than 17 years.”

“She lived with us for 56 years. She raised me and my siblings without pay. I was 11, a typical American kid, before I realized who she was.”

What football will look like in the future.

The complicated post-baseball days of Joe DiMaggio.

Basketball’s iconoclast is now a broke recluse at 37.

Five years after they leave the league, 60 percent of NBA players have nothing left. In the NFL, it’s closer to 80 percent after just two years. A breakdown of the economics of retirement.

Terrell Owens at 38: unemployed, nearly bankrupt after losing his shirt in a electronic-bingo entertainment complex development plan gone bust, father of four children (one of which he has never met), frequent bowler.

Before he was a Twitter savant, Jose Canseco was a juiced-up terror.

Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling needed funding for his ambitious video-game startup. Rhode Island politicians needed jobs and a vision for how to transform the state’s beleaguered economy. The story of a $75 million bet gone bust.

The crumbling of an American icon.

On Stephon Marbury’s (not totally sad!) NBA exile in China.

Baseball legend Lenny Dykstra’s on-field brilliance and private-life disasters, from drunk driving to failed investment and publishing ventures.

A profile of Jordan at 50.

On the visionary architects who, along with an extremely helpful tax break, gave birth to the American mall.

A writer tries to make sense of a national landmark.

Over the last five years, so-called “sweepstakes cafes,” known in Las Vegas and elsewhere as “casinos,” have opened in malls from Florida to Massachusetts. On the law-bending rise of a $10 billion industry.

The soap opera of an off-brand mall in West Houston.

How Hollister employs the dark art of “immersive retail” to bring the allure of the mall to its flagship store in New York.

Spending time with the Tonya Harding Fan Club in the wake of the assault on Nancy Kerrigan.

The motley gang of L.A. teens that cat-burgled celebrities, sometimes repeatedly, in search of designer clothes, jewelry, and something to do.

Film: The Bling Ring

An orchid-enthusiast goes to battle in Florida.

Film: Adaptation

Nearly 20 years after its publication, the author revealed that this story, on the disco scene in Brooklyn, was a fake.

Film: Saturday Night Fever

The man who blew the whistle on big tobacco.

Film: The Insider

Adventures in bartending.

Film: Coyote Ugly

Six young men, a boat, and the worst gale in a century.

At age 22, the author went undercover at his old high school. Here’s what he found.

A young Brooklyn man attempts a bank robbery to finance his lover’s sex change surgery.

Film: Dog Day Afternoon

Hanging with surfer girls in Maui.

Film: Blue Crush

Drag racing in New York.

Film: The Fast and the Furious

At 25, Stephen Glass was a reporter wunderkind, regularly filing incredible pieces for the largest magazines. When suspicion fell on his sources, things started to really get strange. It wasn’t just sources and organizations he was inventing, but whole stories.

How the CIA used a fake science fiction film to sneak six Americans out of revolutionary Iran.

Film: Argo

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.

A trip to one of America’s quietest places with a man who has dedicated his life to keeping it that way.

Silent since a car accident nine years before, Erik Ramsey prepares to speak again.

A speech on the value of being alone with your thoughts, delivered to the plebe class at West Point.

John Cage’s art of noise.

A trip to India for total silence.

The Barden family today.

Confessions of a white-collar heroin addict.

Remembering the loss of a parent and the birth of an addiction.

A father on his son’s meth problem.

Three years lost to Grand Theft Auto.

Giving yourself over to poker.

On quitting cigarettes.

Seventy-five years after its founding, it’s still hard to explain exactly why Alcoholics Anonymous works.

For 18 months, Coatesville, Penn., was besieged with an improbable number of arsons. But who started the fires—and why?

The arson case that led Texas to execute an almost certainly innocent man.

Living through a Colorado fire that burned down 169 homes.

Ten churches are torched in East Texas. The culprits? Two Baptist teens having a crisis of faith.

Thomas Sweatt torched D.C. for decades and was finally jailed for killing one person. During a year-long correspondence from prison with a reporter, he confessed there were more.

It started with a candle in an abandoned warehouse. It ended with temperatures above 3,000 degrees and the men of the Worcester Fire Department in a fight for their lives.

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

A rookie firefighter confronts his first test.

On the moral responsibility to break unjust laws.

An author pleas to amend his entry.

On the wonders of being an only child.

On rape jokes.

Davis was imprisoned on charges of first degree murder.

Max Soffar, who has liver cancer, has been on death row since 1981. He’s almost certainly innocent.

On the imprisonment of Alfred Dreyfus.

How Sherwin Shayegan pulled off a 3,000-mile, piggyback ride-fueled journey.

On the road with John Coster-Mullen, a truck driver who reverse engineered the atomic bomb.

A wandering summer road trip.

A Liberian road trip with the creator of MTV, Ralph Reed, and a reformed cannibal named General Butt Naked.

The Great Railway Bazaar author drives across the country.

“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.”

On his last night, Williams lay dying in the back of a blue Cadillac, with 17-year-old Charles Carr at the wheel.

A cross-country drive with the first head writer of Saturday Night Live.

On a mysterious migrant in a San Diego hospital bed, and the thousands of families who hope that he’s theirs.

How war-crimes investigators captured top-secret documents tying the Syrian regime to mass murder.

A 3-part series on life in a small West Virginia city.

A profile of Jimmy Connors on the eve of the 1978 U.S. Open. His legendary confidence, honed by his mother since childhood, was in free-fall. (He would go on to win the final in straight sets.)

A profile of Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight.

“Robert Victor Sullivan, whom you’ve surely never heard of, was the toughest coach of them all. He was so tough he had to have two tough nicknames, Bull and Cyclone, and his name was usually recorded this way: coach Bob “Bull” “Cyclone” Sullivan or coach Bob (Bull) (Cyclone) Sullivan. Also, at times he was known as Big Bob or Shotgun. He was the most unique of men, and yet he remains utterly representative of a time that has vanished, from the gridiron and from these United States.”

“This is the story of Billy Conn, who won the girl he loved but lost the best fight ever.”

An intertwined profile of Roger Bannister, the first person to run four-minute mile, and Sir Edmund Hillary, the first person to climb Mount Everest.

At age 17, Eustace Conway moved into the North Carolina woods. He hasn’t compromised since.

Ida Wood, who lived for decades as a recluse in a New York City hotel, would have taken her secrets to the grave—if her sister hadn’t gotten there first.

Matthew Weigman was blind, overweight, 14 and alone. He could also do anything he wanted with a phone. Sometimes that meant calling Lindsay Lohan. Other times it meant sending a SWAT team to an enemy’s door.

How could a one-time rising golf star be gifted with top 10 talent yet struggle to break even on the LPGA tour, possess Madison Avenue magnetism yet be such a loner? But the most difficult thing to understand is this: Why did she take her own life?

The tale of itinerant wanderer Chris McCandless. The magazine story that preceded Into the Wild.

A profile of the reclusive musician.

If Charles Brogden pilfered a kitchen, he washed the dishes and mopped the floor before he left. And the law just couldn’t seem to run him down.

Meeting Christopher Thomas Knight, a.k.a. the North Pond Hermit, who lived alone in the Maine woods for nearly 30 years.

On the mysterious life of an the isolated heiress.

Why the richest comedian in history keeps working.

A look at the life and career of Richard Pryor as he reached the end.

Carlin on his start, his work, and his addictions.

The rise and fall, and rise and fall, of a legend.

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

A young Allen writes jokes for supper club comedians, decides he will never succeed as a performer, does, idolizes and is snubbed by Mort Sahl, and develops the comic persona which will make him a star.

On Sarah Silverman’s stand-up style.

A profile of Larry David, with a focus on his years as a struggling stand-up.

A profile of the reclusive Garry Shandling.

She’s TV’s loudmouth Domestic Goddess, desecrater of our national anthem and most of our notions of good taste. And she has a secret. Meet Baby, Cindy, Susan, Nobody, Joey, Heather and the rest: An adventure in Multiple Personality Disorder.

Remembering the unsparing Patrice O’Neal.

Outtakes from a Rolling Stone profile.

Writing in his mid-30s—and, it’s worth noting, in 1969—the scientist breaks down the many pleasures he’s found in getting high.

A journey inside California’s medical marijuana industry, with a guide named Captain Blue.

A trip to the Cannabis Cup serves as a backdrop for an explanation of how the War on Drugs revolutionized the way marijuana is grown in America.

The story of how a 19-year-old kid in Idaho went from delivering pizza to leading a operation responsible for smuggling at least seven tons of marijuana across the Canadian border.

On marijuana’s impact on national politics, the economy, and the prison system.

Looking for a glimpse of America’s possibly legalized future, a reporter spends a week working at an Amsterdam coffee shop (and confronts his fear of weed, kind of).

A journey to Disney World with kids and weed.

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

Collusion, sabotage, violence—inside Montreal’s no-holds-barred snow removal racket.

First chill, then stupor, then letting go.

In 1912, 300 miles deep on a trek into the uncharted Antarctic wilderness, Douglas Mawson lost most of his crew and supplies. This is the story of how he got back.

A dispatch from eastern Siberia, a realm of steel-shattering cold and nullifying vastness sometimes called “the white hell.”

In 2001, a young Japanese woman walked into the North Dakota woods. Had she come in search of the $1 million dollars buried by a fictional character in the film Fargo?

How the ski town of the super-rich responds to global warming.

The avalanche at Tunnel Creek.

A trip to the Iditarod.

Five years after the tsunami that killed tens of thousands in Japan, a husband still searches the sea for his wife, joined by a father hoping to find his daughter.

My obsession with the flaws, reproductions and potential collapse of Michelangelo’s masterpiece.

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

How one school became a battleground over which children benefit from a separate and unequal system.

How the refugee crisis is changing the world economy.