“His goal is to stay in power another day, another year, and to deal with complications when—and if—they arise.”

What happened after two Wisconsin girls made headlines for attempting to kill their friend in the internet character’s name.

The story of a Puerto Rican family trying to get settled in Chicago after Hurricane Maria.

An indecent proposal, a crime of passion, and legends of murder in an enclave of bohemian retirees.

What we know (and don’t), more than a year after American diplomats began to suffer strange, concussion-like symptoms in Cuba.

They’ve built a hidden society in a state park. Among the haole squatters of Kalalau.

The teenager told police all about his gang, MS-13. In return, he was slated for deportation and marked for death.

Every month, thousands of deportees from the United States and hundreds of asylum-seekers from around the world arrive in Tijuana. Many never leave.

How a meteorite hunter’s obsession took him from the mountains of Colorado, to the Bundy Ranch, and eventually landed him in jail.

Three days in Wyoming as the hip-hop firebrand tends to his scars.

We knew everything we needed to know, and nothing stood in our way. Nothing, that is, except ourselves.

A statewide network of schools for disabled students has trapped black children in neglect and isolation.

The families who are choosing to live in the exclusion zone’s ghost villages and nearby.

Priests are fielding more requests than ever for help with demonic possession, and a centuries-old practice is finding new footing in the modern world.

How a cat litter scientist from Iowa ended up in an NBA star’s inner circle.

On conservative radio host John Ziegler and “the strange media landscape in which political talk radio is a salient.”

How a brilliant self-made software programmer from South Africa single-handedly built an online startup that became one of the largest individual contributors to America’s burgeoning painkiller epidemic. In his world, everything was for sale. Pure methamphetamine manufactured in North Korea. Yachts built to outrun coast guards. Police protection and judges’ favor. Crates of military-grade weapons. Private jets full of gold. Missile-guidance systems. Unbreakable encryption. African militias. Explosives. Kidnapping. Torture. Murder. It's a world that lurks just outside of our everyday perception, in the dark corners of the internet we never visit, the quiet ports where ships slip in by night, the back room of the clinic down the street.

Nannies and housecleaners have some of the hardest, least secure jobs in the nation. Now they’re organizing to change that.

The untold story of Alek Minassian, a year after the deadliest mass murder in Toronto history

More than 250 people have died since 2011 taking pictures of themselves in dangerous locations.

What do you do when you hear that Mike Tyson is opening a weed resort in the middle of the California desert? You go investigate.

For nearly a century, an oak in a German forest has helped lonely people find love—including the mailman who delivers its letters.

What prompts a woman to exit society and marry God? Inside a modern convent in Texas.

What one writer learned about power, real and imagined, from Trump’s “senior adviser” and son-in-law.

How a hacker shamed and humiliated high school girls in a small New Hampshire town, and how they helped take him down.