We think of the character as lithe and slim as the actors who’ve played him. But Shakespeare might not have intended him to be that way.

Julia, a 30-year-old, has spent her life trying not to take more than what she needs from the world. It’s made life very difficult.

The Hollywood backroom machinations that got the biopic to movie screens.

A trip to Papua New Guinea, “an island caught between the ancient world and 2015.”

Paul Phua rose from a Borneo numbers runner to being the biggest bookmaker in the world. Then he found poker.

We know that certain programs can help prevent gun deaths among black men. No one in Washington seems to care.

An interview with Tiger Woods as he turns 40.

Emily and Kate wanted to have a baby together. They were more successful than they ever imagined.

A traveler tries to make sense of a beautiful island with a dark past.

How an art shipper took advantage of the market’s opaque rules and shadowy deal-making to rip off a Russian oligarch.

A program in Washington state aims to teach johns about healthy relationships - and the patriarchy.

“Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”

Seven months ago, an underdog Brazilian soccer team boarded a plane to play the game of their lives. They never made it.

An investigation leads to the deepest reaches of the internet.

A religious order funded largely by the founder of the Cheesecake Factory announced plans to build a temple in a small California town. The town wasn’t thrilled.

“My cousin became a convicted felon in his teens. I tried to make sure he got a second chance. What went wrong?”

The consumer giant looks to social responsibility in the age of big business.

The film executive hired private investigators, including ex-Mossad agents, to track actresses and journalists.

Africa’s most important economy now appears to function for the benefit of one powerful family—the Guptas.

Officers can lie to juries or brutally beat civilians and still keep their jobs.

If you are an enemy of Putin, there’s one city where intrigue and assassins are bound to follow you.

“All human relations are a matter of record, ready to be revealed by a clever algorithm. Everyone is a spidergram now.”

After a cop walks into his station and confesses to murder, an investigation reveals the toll of lethal force on both sides of the gun.

On PredictIt, a site that allows you to bet on politics, and the people who are getting rich off it.

How the godfather of “fratire” went from chronicling his drunken sexual conquests to ghostwriting Tiffany Haddish’s memoir.