Private planes, caviar lunches and Little League.

Hipsters vs. Hasids in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. A skirmish over a bike lane becomes a battle for a neighborhood.

Foreign policy as architecture; how embassies went from lavish social hubs to reinforced strongholds.

“In 2000, Zimbabwe’s dictator began kicking white farmers off their land. One man decided to stay.”

Deaf, mute and undocumented, he was charged 12 years ago with a capital crime and has been in legal limbo ever since.

Her fiction has imagined societies riddled with misogyny, oppression, and environmental havoc. These visions now feel all too real.

What it feels like to get hit by a major league fastball.

In El Salvador, more and more young women are choosing—or being forced into—gang life.

How extreme weather, which displaced more than a million people last year, could reshape America.

How Jerry Lee Lewis got away with murdering 25-year-old Shawn Michelle Stevens, his fifth wife.

How Craig Carton, a morning host on WFAN, ended up running a Ponzi scheme.

A very Florida investigation.

A two-part investigation into why so many more young players are getting seriously injured.

Antoine Yates spent three years living in New York City public housing with a 450-pound Siberian tiger named Ming.

In 1944, an eighteen year old boy became famous for throwing eggs at Frank Sinatra. Then he disappeared.

Rafael Palmeiro was a surefire Hall of Famer before a positive steroids test derailed everything. He retired a few months later, quietly sent home early by the team that had been planning to celebrate him. Next came depression and a $53 million business deal gone bust.

Life at Marvel Comics in the mid-1960s.

An excerpt from Marvel Comics: The Untold Story.

On Aint It Cool News’ Harry Knowles, who built an influential empire on insider movie news while wheelchair-bound and at one point weighing over 500 pounds, then lost it all.

How a struggling comedian became a pimp who eventually started sending teenage hookers on bank robbery missions that earned them notoriety as the “Starlet Bandits.”

Harsh sentences have given us an aging prison population, and all the medical problems that come with age are beginning to choke the system.

Dikembe Mutombo, humanitarian and former NBA center, and oil executive Kase Lawal arrange a ill-fated deal to buy $30 million in gold in Kenya.

Ted Nelson's Xanadu project began in 1960 and was supposed to be the universal, democratic hypertext library that would help human life evolve into an entirely new form. It didn't go that way.

Update: The software was finally, quietly released in April.

The material powers solar panels and microchips. In Alabama, two thieves cashed in.

Mark Karpelès ran the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world until a heist made it insolvent, ultimately landing him in solitary confinement in Japanese prison.