How MSG became “perhaps the most infamously misunderstood and maligned three letters in the history of food.”

They advertise murder for hire but work for the government. Inside the world of America’s fake hit men.

Trying to understand the appeal of Eve Online.

She believed she had survived the worst time of her life. But there was more to come.

Exploring the crime-ridden depths of the internet with Opsec, a former professional hacker.

The tragi-comic career of a nobody comedian from the 1940s who ditched his wife, child, and eventually his own name.

Efraim Zuroff does not want to retire.

How Adalia Rose, a six-year-old with an early-aging disorder called progeria, became both an Internet celebrity and the target of online vitriol.

On the murder of a popular bar owner in a ghost town near the Mexican border.

Who was Ashraf Marwan working for when he fell to his death from the balcony of a London flat?

The making of the drone.

A portrait of a comedian in the moment just before he becomes huge.

Football-related brain damage made Rickie Harris fall from the heights of the NFL to serving a DUI sentence in his ex-wife’s basement.

Inside the investigation that broke the biggest case of insider trading in history.

Nitrous balloon vendors clash in the parking lots of jam band festival across the Northeast.

Thirty years ago, a series of documentaries introduced the world to an isolated tribe in Papua New Guinea. What happened when the cameras left?

How Texas’s decade-long border security operation has turned South Texas into one of the most heavily policed and surveilled places in the nation.

Indigenous people and illegal miners are engaged in a fight that may help decide the future of the planet.

For decades, the vote-by-mail business was a sleepy industry that stayed out of the spotlight. Then came 2020.

A celebrated Uyghur writer gives a first-person account of the genocide in Xinjiang.

Karen Holloman opened the door of her uncle's apartment with his best friend, Larry Young, a step behind. As they edged inside, she looked to her left and saw the end of her uncle's bed and his motionless feet. "He's been in here asleep all along," Holloman muttered, for a moment annoyed at the worry he had caused by not answering his phone. Her anger froze as she entered his room: The Rev. Marvin Moore lay dead in his bed, a bullet hole through the back of his head, a pool of blood gathered beneath his limp arm.

Only 16 counties regularly impose death sentences, and they have three things in common: overaggressive prosecutors, defense lawyers who aren’t up to the task and cultural legacies of racial bias. Florida’s Fourth Judicial Circuit is among them.

After a final film, Kevin Smith is going to retire to a life of podcasting and speaking tours. Or so he says.

In 2004, Cameron Todd Willingham was executed for starting a fire that killed his three daughters. The case hinged on the testimony of a jailhouse informant named Johnny E. Webb. Today, Webb says he lied.

Inside the ultra-Orthodox Jewish rally at Citi Field to discuss the dangers of the internet:

A man in a black fur hat asked him what, exactly, was an app, and he explained it to him. The man grimaced and walked away.