What happened when one of San Francisco’s most notorious underworld bosses tried to go clean.

A group of high school students try desperately to make it through an isolated and dire year.

More than 60 years after Brown v. Board of Education, New York’s schools remain separate and unequal.

Five prostitutes disappear. Bodies turn up on a Long Island beach. On the women lost, and the families left behind.

On the rescue in July of two children from a burning apartment in southern France.

A student fires three shots during a sixth period social studies class. “Then nothing happened, and that’s a problem.”

When her brother embraced Orthodox Judaism, the author began to question her own reality and went to Israel to find some answers.

Some of the wealthiest people in America are getting ready for the crackup of civilization.

Many people dream of building their own home in the country, but one family finds more of a struggle than they bargained for.

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.

Beyond the fact that he lacked a pulse, little is known about the man found on an Adelaide beach in 1948.

Is a well-received work of William Faulkner scholarship a hoax?

Twenty-six years after he was wrongfully imprisoned for the murder of his wife, Michael Morton sees the real killer brought to justice in a Texas courthouse.

An investigation into the sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests in Alaska Native villages.

“In the very near future, the act of remembering will become a choice.”

A chronicle of the 2010 wildfire that burned down 169 homes in Colorado, told via the people who lived through it.

On a press junket in Ecuador, the author investigates the ethics of shopping.

Playing beer pong with David Axelrod—and other scenes from the lives of young, high-profile aides in the Obama White House.

Emmanuel “Toto” Constant, the founder of a barbaric Haitian paramilitary group, vanished from Port-au-Prince and resurfaced as a real estate agent in Queens.

How the GOP took control of state politics in Alabama, leaving black lawmakers—and their constituents—powerless.

In the north Bronx, a small group of elite Ethiopian runners struggle to survive. The persecution they fled was far more harrowing.

Conspiracy theorists think that the government killed the aspiring Libertarian filmmaker David Crowley to stop him from making his film about an authoritarian takeover of the United States and the vets who fight back. The truth is far stranger.

COBOL is a coding language older than Weird Al Yankovic. The people who know how to use it are often just as old. It underpins the entire financial system. And it can’t be removed. How a computer language controls the financial life of the world.

”In West Antarctica, scientists have discovered the engine of catastrophe.”

A young couple, their warring families, and the risks of marrying for love in India.