“The Anonymous mystique had allowed a group of incompetents to hijack, then discredit, an important grassroots movement in the eyes of national media.”

A group of journalists and researchers wade into ugly corners of the Internet to expose racists, creeps, and hypocrites. Have they gone too far?

How Sinclair Broadcast Group bent the rules, bought politicians, and faked the news to become one of the largest independent owners of television stations in America.

The man behind the craze for fermented alcoholic tea likes to tell the story of his own conception.

An eyewitness tells us what it was like to be there.

A drag pageant pioneer dropped out of the public eye after the 1960s. What happened to her?

The former Beastie Boy, 48, tries to figure out what’s next.

How Ross Ulbricht went from idealistic used-book seller to murderous drug kingpin.

The multimillionaire David Gundlach had trouble, all his life, reading social cues. For reasons no one quite understands, he left most of his fortune to Elkhart, Indiana.

Football-related brain damage made Rickie Harris fall from the heights of the NFL to serving a DUI sentence in his ex-wife’s basement.

A controversial effort divides students by race in order to combat racism.

Investigating the death of Rikers Island women’s jail inmate Jackie Caquias, and other abuses of women prisoners’ access to medical care.

Prosecutors have spun creative theories to explain away scientific evidence when DNA tests haven’t fit their version of events.

On February 10, 1982, Lucy Dixon’s daughter was raped. Against all odds, she and her family brought the man to justice.

A critical look at the contemporary art marketplace.

The trouble is that a business model has come to drive the entire art world, and like the corporate executive who regards the launch of each new product as a challenge to the success of the last one, because you must keep growing or you will die, the arts community finds itself in a state of permanent anxiety. There always has to be a new artist whom the media will embrace as enthusiastically as they embraced Warhol; there always has to be a show that will top the excitement generated by the last blockbuster at the Modern or the Met.

An industry responds to the recession by rebranding the carrot as anything but vegetable.

Sam Childers, a Pennsylvania-based evangelical preacher, biker, and former drug addict, has devoted his life to catching crazed African warlord Joseph Kony.

From Tetris to Angry Birds, an examination of “stupid games.”

How KFC brought fried chicken to China and Africa as U.S. sales slumped.

On having sex with your high school girlfriend – and paying the price for years to come.

The Beastie Boys on tour in Los Angeles shortly after the release of their debut album, Licensed to Ill.

A married father of two tracks down his free-living doppelgänger, a musician who has avoided responsibility at every turn, to see who’s happier.

“Being Justin Bieber means having an endless number of T-shirts to destroy.” A profile of the pop star just after his 18th birthday.

It’s a club “filled exclusively with people who do not want to be members.”

An ode to professional basketball players and why pro ball is the best ball of all.