Chris Barry was born into Washington D.C. royalty. He died alone, essentially homeless, just a year after losing a race for his father’s former seat.

His father was a notorious figure in Providence organized crime. Boxing offered a different path for Jarrod Tillinghast—but it didn’t stop him from slipping into his old ways and robbing drug dealers with his neighborhood friends.

Most tycoons give big to one or two universities as their children approach college age. David Shaw gave to seven.

“As the world’s best-known oceanographer—Sylvia is to our era what Jacques Cousteau was to an earlier one—she feels a heavy responsibility. In her lifetime, she has seen the ocean damaged in ways humans never thought it could be. The ongoing disaster leaves her mournful, desolate, and sometimes scary to talk to. Since her first dive, in a sponge-diver’s helmet in a Florida river when she was 16, she has spent 7,000 hours, or the better part of a year, underwater.”

The author of The Hot Zone on how geneticists can help contain the current outbreak.

The U.S. Department of Justice investigates the Blackwater founder’s new firm.

A triple homicide, the alleged involvement of a Boston Marathon bombing suspect, and those caught up in the FBI’s ongoing investigation.

The death of the journalist who exposed dark secrets about Islamic extremism in Pakistan’s military.

The Runaways, their manager Kim Fowley, and the rape of the band’s bassist, long kept a secret.

How an alcoholic doctor simultaneously saved his own life and made what could be the medical breakthrough of the century.

How a journalism professor named Dan Sinker became the most entertaining part of the Chicago mayoral race.

A New Orleans football legend reached the pinnacle of the sport, playing in three Super Bowls. Then he disappeared.

For years, it was the largest portal for sex on the internet. Now its fate could shape the future of Silicon Valley.

The story of a lifelong addict and an unlikely friendship.

He dreamed of educating the children in his village. But soon he learned that it was dangerous for the Rohingya to dream.

Can the king of ultrarunning conquer a race as short as the marathon?

On the racially motivated destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood district.

Why did Christie Smythe upend her life and stability for Martin Shkreli, one of the least-liked men in the world?

The corruption and cruelty of the state’s response to suspected jihadis and their families seem likely to lead to the resurgence of the terror group.

The author’s then-six-year-old ended up with the original artwork for one of the cards in Magic’s Alpha series—but he’s not selling, so don’t even ask.

Memories of the author’s teenage years, when his father pulled up stakes on a comfortable life in Baltimore to reinvent himself as the head of a S&L bank in Los Angeles.

It started as simple teenage rebellion but ended up tearing Syria apart, setting in motion events that continue to rock the Middle East — and the world. The boys behind the graffiti would become unlikely revolutionaries and reluctant refugees. Not all of them would survive the upheaval they helped unleash.

In 1963, William Zantzinger was convicted of manslaughter in the death of Hattie Carroll and then immortalized – and somewhat defamed – by Bob Dylan. What’s he been up to since then?

A young, shackled black man is shot to death — and the police say he killed himself. The resulting investigation has pitted the victim’s father against the most powerful man in New Iberia, La.