Gold mined in the jungles of Peru brought riches to three friends in Miami—but it also carried ruin.

In a Plano bowling alley one night, Bill Fong came so close to perfection that it nearly killed him.

What if people don’t just invent medical symptoms to get attention—what if they feign oppression, too?

Inside Randall Emmett’s direct-to-video empire, where many Hollywood stars have found lucrative early retirement.

Inside the race to eliminate one of nature’s biggest threats.

On the Toronto Islands, an ugly real estate battle forces neighbours to ask: How do we define family?

The U.S. military openly admitted to killing Somali civilians but won’t return their emails or issue reparations.

An Australian slaughterhouse dispute shone a light on a system designed to exploit migrant workers’ hopes and ambitions.

Can face-to-face meetings between a victim and an abuser—a form of restorative justice—help a society overwhelmed with bad behavior?

Covid allowed Raquel Esquivel and 4,500 others to be released from overcrowded federal prisons. So why is she back behind bars?

Foreign students are lied to and exploited on every front. They’re also propping up higher education as we know it

A sketch artist and a grieving mother set out to solve a cold case. The more they dug, the more terrifying the truth became.

Inside a quirky indie publisher’s turn to Covid trutherism

The Brooklyn Nets were built to be an unbeatable superteam of eccentric basketball superstars. Will they dominate the N.B.A. playoffs?

The musician, producer and archivist is driven by one thing: a mission to spread the joy of Black music.

Courtroom testimony about dogs detecting dead bodies keeps sending people to prison—even without physical evidence. Critics say the science is lacking.

In Sinaloa, Mexico, women recover the bodies of missing loved ones—and cook to keep their memories of the dead alive.

How NFL wide receiver Demaryius Thomas lost his mother and grandmother to drug dealing, and how he plans on bringing them home.

Was the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre actually a smokescreen to obscure an even more audacious art crime?

On Westmont College, a “feeder school” to the upper ranks of the Christian conservative movement.

How Chicago is key to a business moving tons of drugs for billions of dollars.

Jamie Leigh Jones’s story of gang-rape in Iraq changed the law to help victims, even though she might not have been one herself.

It mostly had to do with Patch, the executive’s hyperlocal and unprofitable baby.

“Americans find it hard to believe that foreigners are unalterably foreign, for they have seen generations of immigrants who became Americans.”

It comes from the soil of the desert Southwest. Inhaled, it can cause incurable, even fatal illness. And, thanks to global warming, valley fever is spreading fast.