Ten years ago, Jack Whittaker won the largest lotto jackpot in history. Then he lost everything.

Throughout their troubled lives, identical twins William and Chris Cormier shared a preternatural bond. Then the body of a Florida journalist ended up in their backyard.

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

On the late singer Judee Sill, the virtual cemetery site Find a Grave, and memorials in the age of the Twitter RIP.

In the highlands of Papua New Guinea, admist a mining boom, the public torture and killing of women accused of sorcery has returned.

Amidst the football-obsessed culture of small-town Christian colleges in Kansas, a player is killed at a party.

An oral history of the 2003 World Series of Poker, as poker went mainstream in America and online players invaded the competition.

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

A profile of DJ Larry Levan, whose sets at New York’s Paradise Garage in the 80s had an almost religious appeal.

A profile of Nora Sandigo, guardian to hundreds of kids born in America to illegal immigrants.

A turn in the orgy dome, half a hit of German-engineered acid and more adventures on the Playa.

What U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul has seen in Russia since he arrived two and a half years ago.

On PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, and the experience of covering AIDS in Africa.

Meeting Christopher Thomas Knight, a.k.a. the North Pond Hermit, who lived alone in the Maine woods for nearly 30 years.

Why America, and every other street in Massachusetts, runs (or will eventually run) on Dunkin’.

The on and offline search for the prime suspect in last month’s celebrity nude photo hacking scandal.

Vivien Thomas was paid a janitor’s wage, never went to college, and still became a legend in the field of heart surgery.

A New York gossip reporter makes her way in the wilds of European bureaucracy.

A couple tries to give away their house in Flint, Michigan – but no one wants to live there anymore.

Only after buying a new home did the Milliken family learn something terrible had happened in it.

A small town in Nebraska promised a warm welcome to a family of Katrina evacuees. It didn’t last.

The struggles of Xavier University, a tiny, historically-black school in New Orleans, to train students for medical school.

Explaining a radical shift in the way some of New York’s best restaurants do business.

How an amateur photographer documented the greatest achievement in track and field history.

A 30-year-old funeral director in LA wants to help the living get closer to death.