A writer’s trip home to Hot Springs, Arkansas, and the racetrack inextricably linked with the histories of his family and his hometown.

A profile of the Mexican newsweekly, a “lone voice” in reporting on the narcos.

On the Cairo knifing of 82-year-old Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz and its aftermath.

The elite Iraqi “Golden Division” was trained by the US to hunt terrorists. But now they’re locked in a brutal street battle for control of Mosul.

How the heaviest man in the NFL survived a life of pain and transformed his body after falling in love.

The mysterious business interests trying to patent strains and turn their company into the Monsanto of legal marijuana.

Guardians can sell the assets and control the lives of senior citizens without their consent—and reap a profit from it.

A small group of programmers wants to change how we code—before catastrophe strikes.

A former journalist, equipped with an algorithm and the largest collection of murder records in the country, finds patterns in crime.

A gang of teen hackers snatched the keys to Microsoft’s videogame empire. Then they went too far.

America’s first viral story was of a Kentucky cave explorer, Floyd Collins, and the epic effort to rescue him.

An analysis of online activity during the 2016 campaign makes the case that targeted cyberattacks by hackers and trolls were decisive.

How Walter Liew stole titanium white from DuPont on behalf of the Chinese government.

The explorers who set one of the last meaningful records on earth.

On the anti-communist genocide known by the Indonesian Army as Operation Annihilation.

A theatre company has spent years bringing catharsis to the traumatized. In the coronavirus era, that’s all of us.

The death of the woman he loved was too much to bear. Could a mysterious website allow him to speak with her once more?

Scandal, conspiracy, and cover-ups in the theft of the “Irish Crown Jewels” from Dublin Castle.

The story of imprisoned boxer James Scott, who contended for the light heavyweight title by staging fights inside Rahway prison.

After his wife disappears, Hans Reiser’s defense contacts a Wired writer who they believe can help explain the world of groundbreaking code, video games, and sci-fi that defines Reiser’s existence.

The future (and past) of non-lethal weaponry deployed against civilian populations.

A profile of the oft-shirtless tight end Rob Gronkowski.

The environmental impact of server farms.

On the origins of outbreaks.