Doug Dodd was a drug kingpin in high school. And now, like the narrator of a Scorcese film, he wants to tell his own story.

A vegan sets out to see if there’s an ethical, sustainable way to eat fish in 2015.

An uneasy friendship forms in colonial Ceylon between the future husband of Virgina Woolf and a socially repulsive police magistrate.

[Part 2 of 2] The story behind this spring’s spate of retributive murders in Southwest D.C.

April Savino, a teenage homeless runaway, lived in Grand Central Terminal from 1984 until 1987 when she committed suicide on the steps of a nearby church.

An hour-by-hour account of the explosion and rescue effort on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico.

Dozens of young adults in rural Wales are hanging themselves, feeding an epidemic of copycat suicides that experts are have been unable to contain.

On how a childhood spent in New York City’s tenements led a 15-year-old boy to be convicted of murder.

Slumdog Millionaire, the 2008 Mumbai attacks, and the arrival of “New India” in the American imagination.

A 13 year old gets a webcam and starts doing dirty shows online, ending up running a smut business in Mexico with his deadbeat father.

A trip to the Famous Poets Society convention/contest in Reno.

Inside the conflict that has caused more deaths than any since WWII—with no end in sight.

Most of the country is trying to keep guns out of schools. A town in rural Idaho is taking the opposite approach.

Two floors of a building in prime Brooklyn for $1000 a month seemed too good to be true. It was.

In Utah, an unlikely leader is looking to end the state’s land-use wars.

There are 1.7 million active Uber riders in London, about half the daily ridership of the Tube. Three years ago, there were 5,000.

In the throes of an epidemic, researchers investigate how to inoculate against the disease.

How the “biggest grow op willing to publish its address” could make Canada an international pioneer in the legalization and commercialization of weed.

Balancing the creation of a house with living in it as a home.

The Obama administration was supposed to fight corporate concentration. In the airline industry, at least, it didn’t work out that way.

A profile of Donald Trump’s son-in-law and de facto campaign manager.

“We have a lot in common. We go to the same shrink.”

He was supposed to be the Dallas Cowboys’ star running back. Instead, Joseph Randle is in prison.

A profile of the Oklahoma City point guard, who is averaging a triple-double in his first season without Kevin Durant.

Somewhere in the desert, buried under a mountain of sand and rock, is an ancient shipwreck. Maybe.