How an obsessive New Age hustler brought the sound of the ocean to millions of home stereos.

An Italian town plagued by mysterious fires turns to science, the church, and the law in a search for answers.

Mary Kuanen escaped the violence of Sudan only to live through her husband’s murder in suburban Denver. This is her life today.

What it takes to defect from the military state of one of the world’s youngest countries.

An investigation into America’s largest chain of psychiatric hospitals, where patients are held against their will to maximize profits.

The Harvard Law School legend has defended everyone from O.J. Simpson to Claus von Bülow. Now he’s facing his toughest case yet: his own.

ProDoula wants to revolutionize the touchy-feely doula profession — and make millions of dollars along the way.

We devote vast resources to intensive, one-off procedures, while starving the kind of steady, intimate care that often helps people more.

In Argentina, where the fútbol underworld controls everything from t-shirt vending to murder, and “rowdy gangs” have turned the stadium into a battleground.

How Barack Obama decided to green-light the operation that killed Osama bin Laden.

Efraim Zuroff does not want to retire.

The author travels to Dubai; Arab children see snow for the first time, which is made by a Kenyan.

How the United States came to spend more on defense than all the other nations of the world combined.

An 88-year-old woman is taken from her Wisconsin farmhouse. Inside the investigation to find her.

A profile of the Navy Seal who killed Osama bin Laden and came home to a life in shambles.

On Julian Jaynes, a Princeton psychologist who told the story of how humans learned to think.

On Ilya Zhitomirskiy, an idealistic young developer who committed suicide 18 months after founding Diaspora, his well-publicized, open-source alternative to Facebook.

The pharmaceutical quest to give women a better sex life.

The author, an abortion counselor, was 40 and pregnant when a conflicted Catholic woman came to her clinic.

Why the head of Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey hired a former CIA agent to ruin a freelance writer’s career.

What happens when a 26-year-old Kentucky resident decides to investigate a rape case from his computer.

Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe build the most powerful Tea Party organization in the country. Then a feud threatened to undo everything.

“Violence, being instrumental by nature, is rational to the extent that it is effective in reaching the end which must justify it.”

Basketball on a Crow reservation and a player named Jonathan Takes Enemy trying to escape.

More than 100 years after they were discovered, we’re still looking for an answer as to why blood types exist.