A reporter makes it his mission to track down all 42 members of a platoon after their service in Iraq.

He holds incredible power over women’s rights. New evidence shows he lied repeatedly about his history of harassment to get there.

For half a century, she has taken the things we know best— our bodies, our rituals, our nation — and shown us how strange they really are.

On the rise and fall of the professional sports bettor.

On the slaughter of songbirds migrating across the Mediterranean.

On the empire built by “Painter of Light” Thomas Kinkade.

Lauren Gunderson on the eve of her New York premiere.

In 1942, a volley of torpedoes sent the U.S.S. Wasp to the bottom of the Pacific. Earlier this year, a team of wreck hunters set out to find it.

She entered the national spotlight after she live streamed the death of her boyfriend, Philando Castile, who was shot by police during a traffic stop. This is Diamond Reynolds’s life today.

She turned to Google for help getting sober. Then she had to escape a nightmare.

On living alone, which more people are doing today than ever before.

How humans evolve in the modern world.

Madrid, 1937:

Then for a moment it stops. An old woman, with a shawl over her shoulders, holding a terrified thin little boy by the hand, runs out into the square. You know what she is thinking: she is thinking she must get the child home, you are always safer in your own place, with the things you know. Somehow you do not believe you can get killed when you are sitting in your own parlor, you never think that. She is in the middle of the square when the next one comes.

The chaos of a group home in Long Beach, California.

A bitter legal row over a mosque in an affluent New Jersey town shows the new face of Islamophobia in the age of Trump.

The search for a disgraced ex-LAPD officer bent on killing his former colleagues and their families.

A look at the artists and writers who drive for a New York cab company. The story that inspired Taxi.

“My mother kept scrapbooks of everything any of her children did all their lives, and among my scrapbooks are newspapers that I wrote on the typewriter at the age of six, The Hersey Family News, with ads offering my older brothers for various kinds of hard labor at very low wages.”

An obituary.

If you were a U.S. prison warden trying to figure out how to kill people with an electric chair in the ‘80s, there was basically one guy to call. His name was Fred A. Leuchter Jr. He ran a business out of his house in the Boston suburbs, providing consulting or execution equipment to at least 27 states between 1979 and 1990. Some of Fred Leuchter’s equipment is still in use today, which is why I wanted to talk to him.

An oral history of the most important deal in sports TV history, when Rupert Murdoch and Fox stole the NFL and John Madden out from under the Big Three networks and launched a television empire.

Paul Newman’s will held some unpleasant surprises for his daughters.

Seven years ago, a young Indigenous woman from Tache, BC, went to a party and never came back. Her family won’t stop looking for her.

She keeps watch over one of the largest databases of missing persons in the country. For Meaghan Good, the disappeared are still out here, you just have to know where to look.