Traveling the highway that could make Brazil an economic powerhouse — at the expense of the Amazon.

How the government enabled the one percent to capitalize on the housing crisis.

A patriotic parade, a bloody brawl, and the origins of U.S. law enforcement’s war on the political left.

“When it comes down to it, really, genes don’t make you who you are. Gene expression does. And gene expression varies depending on the life you live.”

How a Japanese company took over the American living room.

Inside Zappos as it transitions to something called a “Teal organization” that involves no managers and what amounts scouting merit badges and something called “People Points.”

More Americans rely on Puerto Rico’s grid than on any other public electric utility. How one renegade plant worker led them through the shadows.

Tekashi 6ix9ine was SoundCloud rap’s most notorious star. But the same instincts that made him huge may put him in prison for years

When a car careened onto a baseball field in Sanford, Maine, during a Babe Ruth game in 2018, it set in motion a true-crime mystery 50 years in the making.

A reporter watches as a Hindu nationalist government uses tech from the companies he covers to destroy a secular democracy.

In 2003, a man robbed a bank with a bomb around his neck. It exploded shortly thereafter, taking his life and leaving authorities to try to figure out who had put it there.

Robert Berman was a passionate and polarizing English teacher at the Horace Mann School. He is also accused of sexually abusing many of his devoted students.

A child’s hobby transforms slowly into a grown man’s obsessive project.

A French soccer star’s rise and fall from sports to cons to the Nazi Party.

A mother defends her family lineage against disruption from envious cousins.

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Over the past 33 years, Dick Hoyt has pushed, pulled and carried his disabled son, Rick, through more than 1,000 road races and triathlons, including 28 Boston Marathons. But as time bears down on them, how much longer can they keep it up?

A famed attorney begins a transformation away from being a man; and dies after a companion shoves her under an oncoming train.

Mark Hogancamp nearly died after being jumped by five men in 2000. After waking from a coma with no memories, he developed an extraordinary coping device: he built a miniature town in his garden where he gets his revenge.

According to the trades and his pitch to investors, Ryan Kavanaugh had found film business formula that couldn’t lose. It could. Unraveling a Tinseltown Ponzi scheme.

Undercover in an industrial slaughterhouse.

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At the Jimmy Buffett-branded community, a hint at how increasingly long-lived species might choose to spend their extra decades.

They work in hotel rooms, Airbnbs and secondhand RVs just over the state line, so that women can give birth on their own terms.