How cable sports channels extort hundreds of dollars per year out of every cable subscriber for programming that less than 10% regularly watch.

Parking garages, prisons, freeways and the world of stuff we’re not supposed to look at.

How the island paradise of Seychelles became a magnet for money launderers and tax dodgers.

On Amir Taaki and Cody Wilson, two anarchists with a history of creating controversial software, and their dream of an economy based on untraceable, uncontrollable money.

“What transpired in the streets appeared to be a kind of municipal version of shock and awe.”

How Bernardo Provenzano, “boss of all bosses of the Sicilian Mafia” and fugitive for more than 40 years, got caught.

The strange case of Kip Litton, road race fraud.

A law professor’s interpretation of the 2004 hit.

Each year, thousands of people pay to play eighteen holes of golf at Angola, “the largest maximum-security prison in the country.”

Behind the tabloid story of the “murder orphan” in Queens.

On the reality TV empire of Thom Beers, creator of Deadliest Catch.

On the culture of misogyny and abuse at one of the nation’s largest megachurches.

Why a type of gasoline may be responsible for periods of increased crime in the U.S. and abroad.

A case of mistaken identity and the incarceration of an innocent man.

The story of 15-year-old Audrie Pott, who took her own life after nude photos of her were circulated at school.

A self-published author of pick-up guides visits the “pacifist nanny state” of Denmark and finds the social safety interferes with his seduction strategies.

Exploring the vast underground world of New York City with three of the people who know it best.

Rethinking Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil.

A tale of ambition, motherhood and political mythmaking in the race for governor of Texas.

On Baylor’s freshman basketball star Perry Jones and how the new era of one-season careers has changed the landscape of college basketball.

A profile of Christopher Brosius, the “Willy Wonka of fragrances,” whose latest creation is designed to not be smelled.

A study of the Mississippi River, its history, and efforts by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to hold it in place.

A profile of Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Body and The 4-Hour Workweek.

On the battle between Shaquille O’Neal and his former IT guy, who’s in control of much of O’Neal’s archived (and often damning) correspondence.