A non-erotic journey.

Money, fraud and a sacred prophecy.

A writer’s evolving relationship with guns.

A profile of Apollo Robbins, widely regarded as the world’s best pickpocket.

Four unhealthy, bearded, mostly unknown comedians from Atlanta tour 3,020 miles in a van.

An interview with a man who organized suicide bombings for ISIS.

A former member of SEAL Team 6 sheds her disguise.

A painter’s dogged, doomed pursuit of the perfect $100 bill.

A lifetime worth of little scams adds up.

The life and death of OR4, the patriarch of Oregon’s reintroduced wolves.

On becoming a mom.

Can Karen Navarra’s Fitbit explain her murder?

A letter from the coronavirus quarantine.

Two brothers attempt to bond on a trek in the Cascades

An interview with Amia Srinivasan.

Fifty years ago, a gay, cross-dressing, black singer named Jackie Shane scored a surprise radio hit. A few years later, he disappeared.

On Jack Idema, a con-man who once ran a pet hotel before reinventing himself as a black-ops secret agent in Afghanistan, and the history of counterinsurgency theory.

How a bid to unseat Senator Thad Cochran led to an illegal photo in a nursing home, a flurry of arrests, and the death of the man who brought the Tea Party to Mississippi.

After a lab linked to him was raided, James Jeffrey Bradstreet’s body was found with a bullet wound to the chest. His death was ruled a suicide, but other theories abound.

A business opportunity stemming from “a moment in time when the debate over how colleges should address sexual assault has reached a fever pitch.”

Creating a new, clean police force in the Ukraine.

A war criminal’s life on the run.

“You can treat a lot of people, and India has,’’ says an epidemiologist working on TB. “But if you have tests that cause misdiagnosis on a massive scale you are going to have a serious problem. And they do.”

On the trail of a group of thieves stealing the fanciest wine out of San Francisco’s fanciest restaurants.