Colombian traffickers have a new smuggling method of choice: specially designed submarines capable of carrying 10 tons of cocaine and covering 2,000 miles without refueling.

An indecent proposal, a crime of passion, and legends of murder in an enclave of bohemian retirees.

For years he used fake identities to charm women out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Then his victims banded together to take him down.

With dozens of felines turning up dead around London, a pair of pet detectives set out to prove it was the work of a serial killer.

When the best three months of your life are “called three of the uglier months in the recent history of the National Football League.”

A profile of Beck on the eve of his new album and nearly 20 years after the release of “Loser.”

The author goes in search of his father’s days as a member of an elite club of sport parachutists.

Kidnappers in Mexico have changed their business model from retail to wholesale—instead of extorting a handful of rich families, they are targeting thousands of undocumented migrants.

The story of a young man on the run in the slum he dreams of escaping.

A profile of Suge Knight, 29 and the C.E.O. of Death Row Records, before the deaths of Tupac and Notorious B.I.G.

The inside story of an improbable team of divers, a near-impossible plan and the rescue of 12 boys from a Thai cave.

The financial industry’s pursuit of profits from mobile-home communities is undermining one of the country’s largest sources of affordable housing.

For nearly 17 years, the truth about the murder of Mac Dre has been one of hip-hop’s great unsolved mysteries.

On the discovery of a billion dollars worth of artwork looted by Nazis in the cramped apartment of a Munich recluse.

A profile of Grace Coddington, creative director of Vogue and break-out star of The September Issue.

Junky, out-of-date science fuels jury errors and tragic miscarriages of justice. How can we throw it out of court?

Navigating the sewers of London and summiting the peaks of Paris with a group of urban explorers.

Firsthand accounts of the largest and most ambitious internment drive of a minority group since Nazi Germany, emerging from a region of totalitarian surveillance and control.

South of San Francisco, in a fertile corner of California that feeds much of the country, working families are sleeping in shelters and parking lots.

Accused money launderers left a path of bankrupt factories, shuttered buildings, and hundreds of steelworkers out of jobs.

How the author of Friday Night Lights spent more than half a million dollars over three years on “eighty-one leather jackets, seventy-five pairs of boots, forty-one pairs of leather pants, thirty-two pairs of haute couture jeans, ten evening jackets, and 115 pairs of leather gloves.”

A review of several books on Rupert Murdoch first criticizes the authors for not grasping the many sides of their subject, then offers a thesis of its own. He’s “not so much a man, or a cultural force, as a portrait of the modern world.”

A profile of rapper Bun B, “the unofficial mayor of Houston.”

On the palm trees of Los Angeles.

On the narrative of sexual coercion.