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

From Hong Kong to Bangkok to the Golden Triangle, the author searches for something everyone says no longer exists: an opium den.

For the past 16 months, he had worked as a mole, posing as a militant jihadist in the Islamic State while passing critical information to a secret branch of Iraq’s national intelligence agency. His record was stunning: He had foiled 30 planned vehicle-bomb attacks and 18 suicide bombers, according to Abu Ali al-Basri, the agency’s director. Captain Sudani also gave the agency a direct line to some of the Islamic State’s senior commanders in Mosul.

Jason Matthews worked at the CIA for more than 30 years. Then he started writing spy novels.

Twenty-five years after her career-making album, Liz Phair is still writing songs first and foremost for herself.

He covered car accidents for a years as a journalist. Then he was in two himself.

“I decided that if he would not tell us his story, then I would.”

A profile of the director, written from the set of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.

The story that certified Gehry as a genius and the Guggenheim Bilbao as the building of the late 20th century.

A story of gambling addiction, in seven parts.

Randy Quaid and his wife Evi have fled to Canada and are living in their car. They are seeking asylum from the menace of the “Hollywood Star Whackers.”

There are 45,000 service members missing in action from WWII and other wars who experts say are recoverable. Last year, the U.S. brought home 60 of them.

Fast food used to be a transitional, temporary work. In Creston, Iowa, it has become a career.

When it comes to representing pharmaceutical companies, a doctor’s medical record is far less important than his or her ability to sell.

Dave Goodhouse can’t really make a living anymore. But he can’t get out either.

How a hacker shamed and humiliated high school girls in a small New Hampshire town, and how they helped take him down.

The long legal saga of Kerry Max Cook, who for almost 40 years fought to clear his name after being convicted of murder.

Calvin Stanley is a fourth-grader at Cross Country Elementary School. He rides a bike, watches TV, plays video games and does just about everything other 10-year-old boys do. Except see.

"His friends remembered when Richard became famous. It was the year the hippies came to San Francisco. Richard had published one novel, A Confederate General from Big Sur, but it had sold miserably 743 copies and his publisher, Grove Press, had dropped its option on Trout Fishing in America."

After eight women are murdered in Louisiana, what was initially thought to be the work of a serial killer becomes something much more troubling.

In a campaign supported by the Koch brothers, Republicans are working to prevent millions of Democrats from voting next year.

Even the dumpster divers of America are becoming tech-savvy, well-earning entrepreneurs.

Deana Lawson’s regal, loving, unburdened photographs imagine a world in which Black people are free from the distortions of history.