John Franzese Jr. helped send his father, notorious Colombo family mobster Sonny Franzese, to prison. Then he turned up in Indianapolis.

The former NBA player is forever linked to the murder of his girlfriend.

Vivia, an intellectually disabled woman, had long wanted a child but decided instead to adopt a doll.

What prompts a woman to exit society and marry God? Inside a modern convent in Texas.

How a childhood of anger led the founder of 8chan to create one of the darkest corners of the internet.

A journey to explore the rising authoritarianism in Hungary and its weirdest fringe: the people who believe they’ve descended from Attila the Hun.

A lawsuit against Harvard forces students to choose sides.

Prince had grand plans for his autobiography, but only a few months to live.

On surfer girls in Maui; the story that led to the film Blue Crush.

Texans receiver DeAndre Hopkins says he owes his career to his mom. When you hear her remarkable story of survival, you’ll understand his devotion.

Glory isn’t part of the deal when you go to work for the federal government.

Thomas Joshua Cooper risks his life to document the world’s remotest places.

Caveh Zahedi’s abject, self-defeating, ethically questionable, maddeningly original approach to documentary.

An insider watches Kink.com prepare to leave the hundred-year-old armory it occupies in San Francisco.

History’s largest mining operation is about to begin. It’s underwater—and the consequences are unimaginable.

A new genetic engineering technology could help eliminate malaria and stave off extinctions — if humanity decides to unleash it.

How the state’s “restitution program” forces poor people to work off small debts.

Eira Thomas’s company has used radical new methods to find some of the biggest uncut gems in history.

Inside the wildly ambitious effort to reimagine the classic musical for 2020.

Two well-liked Twitter employees accessed thousands of users’ private information and illegally passed it to the Saudi Royal Family, per the FBI.

Three days in the creative wilderness with Francis Farewell Starlite, the reclusive muse to Kanye West, Bon Iver and Drake.

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

How a group of 17 trans athletes came together last November to make history.

The first epicenter is coming back to life, but not as anyone knew it.

At 22, he single-handedly put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Then he was arrested by the FBI.