“Every generation gets its own Keanu Reeves, except every generation’s Keanu Reeves is this Keanu Reeves.”

How an industrial designer became Apple’s greatest product.

How a state that was never in doubt became a “national embarrassment.”

In many parts of America, like Corinth, Miss., judges are locking up defendants who can’t pay—sometimes for months at a time.

Match Group, which owns most major online dating services, screens for sexual predators on Match—but not on Tinder, OkCupid or Plenty of Fish. A spokesperson said, “There are definitely registered sex offenders on our free products.”

Watching Florida government on the state and local level is like watching two parents bring an alcoholic home after he got kicked out of rehab and deciding that the best course of action is leaving him with $5,000 in an apartment up the street from a dive bar and then going to Cancun for the week. It was on the calendar already, there wasn’t any choice, he looked very healthy at the time!

How a member of a breakaway Mormon sect teamed up with a Lambo-driving, hard-partying tycoon to bilk the government for hundreds of millions of dollars.

How Mitt Romney made his millions.

On nineteenth century invalidism and how societies have drugged themselves through tough transitions across history.

After a Hasidic man exposed child abuse, his tight-knit Brooklyn community turned on him.

In a shantytown near Johannesburg, an angry mob committed a horrifying crime that was caught on video.

As “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” comes to an end, a conversation with gay servicemen past and present.

How Ross Ulbricht went from idealistic used-book seller to murderous drug kingpin.

An American, born into privilege, became a bootleg DVD kingpin in Shanghai and then, in an unprecedented development, landed in Chinese prison.

Protests, populism, and progressivism all clashed in a battle royal. But what really drives election results?

How Amazon’s gigantic, decentralized, next-day delivery network brought chaos, exploitation, and danger to communities across America.

Sharon Stern devoted herself to Butoh, a Buddhist-influenced Japanese dance. Did her mentor lead her down a dangerous path?

In American baseball, flipping your bat is frowned upon. In South Korea, it’s an art.

A device connected to my heart could save my life. It could also be hacked.

A brutal, bloody hunt. A ghastly, devastating attack. And a state left divided on what to do about its 2,500 black bears.

How Service Corporation International corporatized death, driving growth through everything from aggresive acquisitions, volume pricing on caskets and embalming fluid, a “strong flu season,” and pre-selling over $7.5 billion worth of burials.

On “Night Stalker” Richard Ramirez,who terrorized Los Angeles and San Francisco through a string of over 30 home invasion murders starting in 1984 and ending when he was recognized and apprehended by an angry mob.

“I come to America, I go to England, I go to France…nobody’s at risk. They’re afraid of getting cancer, losing a lover, losing their jobs, being insecure. … It’s only in my own country that I find people who voluntarily choose to put everything at risk—in their personal life.”