Behind the character Ursula in The Little Mermaid was a legendary drag queen from Baltimore named Divine.

The final days of the last Navy SEAL to die in Afghanistan.

Winona Ryder has always been trapped in her own anticipatory nostalgia, and the public has always wanted to keep her there.

A civil trial of Officer Marco Proano, who shot Niko Husband in 2011, finds him not guilty. By accident.

The story of the 2010 NCAA championship game between Duke and Butler, and what would have been greatest shot in college basketball history.

Early last year, 10 churches were torched in East Texas. The culprits? Two Baptist teens having a crisis of faith.

“Winning” in Hollywood means not just power, money, and complimentary smoked-salmon pizza, but also that everyone around you fails just as you are peaking.

In a shantytown near Johannesburg, an angry mob committed a horrifying crime that was caught on video.

The search for the missing Holocaust hero began in 1945. The unending quest tore his family apart.

In the wake of Rumours, the band endures a series of break-ups.

Gainsbourg decked out his home at 5 Rue de Verneuil in Saint Germain all in black, inspired by a time when he was younger when he'd somehow got the keys to Salvador Dali's house and made love to his first wife in every room while Dali was away. He even stole a small token souvenir in the form of a picture from Dali's porn collection. (Serge was obsessed with Dali and the pair later became friends. The title of 'Je T'Aime... Moi Non Plus' - roughly translated as 'I love you, me neither' - was inspired by something Dali was once supposed to have said: "Picasso is Spanish - so am I; Picasso is a genius - so am I; Picasso is a communist - me neither.")

The battle of Wanat—the most scrutinized engagement in the Afghanistan War—seen from three perspectives: a dead soldier, his father, and his commander.

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

A brutal assault and the struggle for justice at the University of Virginia.

Note 12/5/14: Rolling Stone has stated that they now doubt details of the facts reported in "A Rape on Campus."

More information is available in T. Rees Shapiro's "U-Va. Fraternity to Rebut Claims of Gang Rape in Rolling Stone" from The Washington Post.

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Newly sober, a man considers faith in its various forms.

On the labor conditions behind branches of NYU, the Louvre, and the Guggenheim in Abu Dhabi.

Mel and Norma Gabler of Longview, Texas, want to tell your children what to learn in school.

Albuquerque has one of the highest rates in the country of fatal shootings by police, and no officer has been indicted.

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 physical rigors of pregnancy tangle with the personal ambitions of a war photojournalist, without limiting her in the least.

Reconstructing the investigation into Rafik Hariri’s assassination, for which five men stand trial in absentia.

A white gangster immerses himself in Asian culture to lead a Chinatown gang. He even learns to pour tea correctly.

Robert Marbut is in the business of helping cities criminalize homelessness.

An innocent man was executed – in 1761. Voltaire got on the case.

The sugar beet harvest in North Dakota draws a modern version of the American hobo.