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 story of Ota Benga, captured in the Congo, displayed at the World’s Fair, and brought to the Bronx Zoo in 1906.

It’s 11 p.m. when Larson at last agrees to meet me in the lobby of the Hampton Inn, next door to the Gurnee Grand. He’s just come out of a marathon closed-door meeting with his fellow exiled senators. Tall, gap-toothed, and handsome, but with a squished, broad nose, Larson appears in a fitted black overcoat, a sedate suit with a Wisconsin flag lapel pin, and an athletic backpack. He looks shockingly young, younger than his thirty years, and seems to be relieved that I am even a few years younger myself. We jump in my Chevy and head for the town’s late-night diner: Denny’s. By the time we settle into a booth, Larson has dropped the routine political affectations—the measured language, the approved talking points, the inauthentic humor. We’re cracking up comparing Republicans to evildoers on South Park and shit-talking mutual acquaintances in Milwaukee. And then, just as Larson is about to take a bite of his veggie burger, I ask the freshman senator if he is scared. “What would I be scared about?” he replies.

“I was never falling-down drunk. I was never belligerent. I always got my work done. I was never unkempt. I was always clean, I was always shaved, I always performed at work. I was always kind and gracious in the dining room. But I lived in hell.”

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.

Speaking to a group that started their college lives in September, 2001, the host of The Daily Show embraces how difficult the real world is:

I want to address is the idea that somehow this new generation is not as prepared for the sacrifice and the tenacity that will be needed in the difficult times ahead. I have not found this generation to be cynical or apathetic or selfish. They are as strong and as decent as any people that I have met. And I will say this, on my way down here I stopped at Bethesda Naval, and when you talk to the young kids that are there that have just been back from Iraq and Afghanistan, you don’t have the worry about the future that you hear from so many that are not a part of this generation but judging it from above.

An oral history of the Tinderverse.

On the crash of Air France Flight 447.

The story of rivers and relationships.

A profile of the prime minister.

The invention of political consulting.

The rise of Israel’s far right.