A portrait of a comedian in the moment just before he becomes huge.

In 1992, a magazine story introduced the world to the photographs of Sally Mann. Here, she responds to the firestorm that article produced.

The author visits City of Refuge in Pahokee, Florida, a community of more than 100 registered sex offenders.

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 support group for trans veterans meets in New Orleans, linked to the only VA that is known to treat them with respect.

The Cleveland police are still adamant that they did nothing wrong in the killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice.

Alberto Salazar is one of the most celebrated running coaches in the world. Is he also a cheater?

On the death of a high school basketball star in New York City.

A former colleague visits the ‘Fire Fiend’ in prison.

How a family man dentist got involved in an underage prostitution ring.

On fashion, gender, a finding oneself in a pair of drop-crotch pants.

Inside the investigation that broke the biggest case of insider trading in history.

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

The search for a missing ultramarathoner in New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness, and the life that lead him there.

The Onion’s Keith Phipps retraces the route Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda followed in Easy Rider.

As of this year, more women than men are in the U.S. workforce. More women are managers and more women are earning college degrees. Here’s why.

Nitrous balloon vendors clash in the parking lots of jam band festival across the Northeast.

How Christopher Hitchens, a former socialist, became one of the most vigorous defenders of the war in Iraq.

Three Dallas prostitutes were found dead in as many months. Charles Albright might be the last person you’d suspect–unless you knew about his lifelong obsession.

The Great Recession’s impact on the legalized prostitution industry in Nevada: more hookers, fewer johns.

For most people who participate in clinical trials, being a guinea pig is just a way to make a quick buck. For others, it’s a career.

During his career, Josh Luchs gave college athletes thousands in cash, meals, and trips. Now he’s retiring and coming clean.

A profile of Anas Aremeyaw, an investigative journalist in Ghana who’s willing to do anything–and pose as anyone–to get the story.

How Cantor Fitzgerald is bringing the principles of day trading to sports betting in Vegas.