On the shadowy machinations driving pro-Russia conspiracy sites like Zero Hedge.

On former CIA agent John T. Downey, who spent more than 20 years in China as the longest held American captive of war.

A retired fighter worries that he has all the symptoms of CTE.

She’s 80 now, working 13 hour days, and still won’t take so much as a reporter’s hand to cross the stream.

On Amaris Tyynismaa, the 14-year-old star runner who has Tourette’s.

A profile of Jon Stewart, who’s now run The Daily Show for more than a decade.

A profile of the New York Times White House correspondent.

He wants you to know one thing: He’s not even angry.

Seeking justice with the Trans Doe Task Force.

Pirates could be found in nearly every Atlantic port city. But only particular locations became known as “pirate nests,” a pejorative term used by royalists and customs officials. Many of the most notorious pirates began their careers in these ports. Others established even deeper ties by settling in these cities and becoming respected members of the local elite. Instead of the snarling drunken fiends that parade through children’s books, these pirates spent their booty on pigs and chickens, hoping to live a more placid and financially secure life on land.

For decades, the lead actor at an acclaimed storefront Chicago theater beat, groped, and choked his female co-stars in front of audiences, while manipulating them into coercive relationships offstage.

A profile of Anita Sarkeesian, who has recieved death threats as she exposes misogyny in the $25 billion video game industry.

A team of researchers at Columbia believe that small changes to college life could make campuses safer.

“The concussion that led Borland to retire came on a routine play, and that’s precisely his point.”

How cops are using nuisance abatement actions to put New Yorkers on the streets.

The FBI couldn’t find Ryan Eugene Mullen. Neither could a trio of private investigators. Only Michelle Gomez knew where to look.

On the road with Johnson Zeng, who buys up the metal “Americans won’t or can’t be bothered to recycle.”

Riding through Detroit with the author of The Turner House.

The search for an Iraq veteran on the brink of suicide.

Albuquerque has one of the highest rates in the country of fatal shootings by police, and no officer has been indicted.

The city’s radical pro-democracy movement faces a stiff test from Mainland China.

Behind the scenes of the survivalist reality-TV show.

On the dangerous state of U.K. banks—“an existential threat to British democracy, a more serious one than terrorism, either external or internal”—and how it can be fixed.

Help came right away. And then it stopped.

Music writer Mark Fisher (who died this week) on the decline of Michael Jackson.