For most people who participate in clinical trials, being a guinea pig is just a way to make a quick buck. For others, it’s a career.

How Cantor Fitzgerald is bringing the principles of day trading to sports betting in Vegas.

On the enduring racial segregation in Chicago and why it’s an issue no mayoral candidate is willing to touch.

From 2009 to 2014, police in Florida shot 827 people. Many of these incidents were avoidable and unnecessary.

West Virginia has the highest overdose death rate in the country. Locals are fighting to save their neighbors—and their towns—from destruction.

There are just a handful of people using iron lungs in the U.S. And the machines they rely on to live are wearing out.

He was the consensus #1 pick in last year’s NBA draft. Then, seemingly overnight, he forgot how to shoot.

Thirty years ago, a series of documentaries introduced the world to an isolated tribe in Papua New Guinea. What happened when the cameras left?

David Boies argued Bush v. Gore all the way to the Supreme Court. He lost the case, but in the process gained another client: Harvey Weinstein.

The true story of M Company: from Fort Dix to Vietnam in 50 days.

The state loses a football field’s worth of land every hour and a half. Now engineers are in a race to prevent it from sinking into oblivion.

Inside the struggle to survive in a tiny Honduran neighborhood surrounded by competing gangs.

An academic in Calgary lives an extreme low-carbon lifestyle. But he really doesn’t want to make you feel weird about it.

The Badger State is designed to keep Republicans in power, at the expense of the minority vote.

In her pandemic summer, a college student retreated to a cabin on an island, and a job on a lobster boat.

How billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Warren Buffett pay so little in income tax compared to their massive wealth—sometimes, even nothing.

In 2015, Tom Turcich set out to circumnavigate the globe by foot. He has been walking ever since.

In the countryside, the endless killing of civilians turned women against the occupiers who claimed to be helping them.

The underage prostitution study that was cited extensively in the congressional hearings that resulted in the removal of Craigslist’s Erotic Services turns out to be the work of a for-hire business consulting firm and, scientifically, completely bogus.

An American mystery writer and an Italian journalist join forces to identify a serial killer that targeted couples having sex in cars in the rolling hills above Florence.

"Here’s God’s truth about it: being a groupie wasn’t about sex, it was about access. I wanted to live in the stage life, dazzled by color and sound, constantly in motion, driven by excitement and power, loved by the stage lights, part of the story."

In Russia’s Far East, an orphaned female tiger is the test case in an experimental effort to save one of the most endangered animals on earth.

The second installment of the Gaile Owens story. A former churchgoing mother of two from suburban Memphis, Owens is the first woman to be given the death penalty in Tennessee in nearly 200 years.

How did a Kentucky entrepreneur, a Louisiana politician, and the vice president of Nigeria end up in one of the biggest scandals to hit America’s black elite in decades?