A visit to the hotel North Korea starved to build, still unfinished after breaking ground in 1987.

On the actors who unwittingly starred in The Innocence of Muslims.

An internet pioneer loses hope in the promise of web culture.

How governments and private companies have engaged in digital arms trading by building a global black market for ‘zero day’ hacks.

Searching for answers 40 years after a Brooklyn man threw acid in the face of his 4-year-old neighbor.

On Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet, its uncanny knack for reflecting changes in Russian politics and culture, and the recent acid attack on its artistic director.

A profile of the deadliest sniper in American history, who was murdered last month by a fellow soldier.

Shulamith Firestone, one of the first radical feminists, helped to create a new society. But she couldn’t live in it.

In a Turkish hotel, veterans of the Libyan Revolution meet with their fractured Syrian counterparts to transfer know-how and heavy weaponry.

Twenty-six years after he was wrongfully imprisoned for the murder of his wife, Michael Morton sees the real killer brought to justice in a Texas courthouse.

A battle against an invasive breed of ants has begun in Texas. It also might be over already.

Did Remington Chase and Stefan Martirosian “orchestrate” a contract killing in Moscow?

How a once-lauded psychiatrist became a prolific prescriber of painkillers in one of Virginia’s poorest and most isolated counties.

“I guess what you post on Facebook matters.” An 18-year-old faces 10 years in jail for a sarcastic threat on Facebook.

In Hollywood’s new blockbuster economy, the actors who portray superheroes are as interchangeable as the costumes they wear.

On the post-prison lives of several men in West Baltimore.

The fight to grant asylum to the translators who worked—and sometimes fought—alongside U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A profile of 21-year-old Dan Cates, who made $5.5 million playing 145,215 hands in 2010.

In 1991, Frank Sterling confessed to a crime he didn’t commit. His story highlights a common – and controversial – method of police interrogation.

An investigation into the sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests in Alaska Native villages.

An investigation into rising crime rates in small American cities. Is a lauded antipoverty program to blame?

By 2006, S&P was making its own study of such loans' performance. It singled out 639,981 loans made in 2002 to see if its benign assumptions had held up. They hadn't. Loans with piggybacks were 43% more likely to default than other loans, S&P found. In April 2006, S&P said it would raise by July the amount of collateral underwriters must include in many new mortgage portfolios. For instance, S&P could require that mortgage pools have extra loans in them, since it now expected a larger number to go bad. Still, S&P didn't lower its ratings on existing securities, saying it had to further monitor the performance of loans backing them. It thus helped the market for these loans hold up through the end of 2006.

On 20-somethings in America, or:

My screwed, coddled, self-absorbed, mocked, surprisingly resilient generation.

On H.H. Holmes “an old hand at corpse manipulation and insurance fraud,” who built a house of death in 1890s Chicago.

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