How Michael Lewis’s The Big Short became a Hollywood comedy.

Rabbi Barry Freundel said he would help dozens of women convert to Judaism. In the process, he secretly videotaped them naked.

Celebrated doctor Paolo Macchiarini was not all that he seemed.

A report from the border of ISIS territory in Iraq, where civilians are battling to survive.

In his own final days, a Right to Die activist tells the story of his secret, illegal assisted-suicide service.

After 13 years of war, the United States has helped create a nation ruled by drug lords.

Centralia, Pennsylvania, used to be a place with kids and schools and churches and houses. Then the ground caught on fire.

An investigation into the steady dismantling of safety nets for injured workers.

While accused killer Robert Durst was in Galveston, he made a few friends besides Morris Black.

There are two roles to play in the new world of on-demand everything: royalty or servant.

Beatrice Munyenyezi told her New Hampshire neighbors that she was refugee from the Rwandan genocide. Half of that was true.

What happend to Serafim Todorov after the 1996 Olympic featherweight semifinals.

How a celebrated American artist was forced to trade his multimillion-dollar collection for a job selling donuts.

How the National Enquirer became a 2010 Pulitzer contender without straying from its roots as a supermarket tabloid.

In 1920, Harvard University officials suspected that some students were gay. So they kicked them all out.

In 2007, Harrah’s made 5.6% of its total Las Vegas revenue off of a single person: Terrance Watanabe.

John Friend, who founded a new school of yoga, says the practice should be about both exercise and spirituality. Oh, and making money.

Vignettes of the residents of South Elliot Place.

It makes as much money as Whole Foods while stocking 90 percent fewer products. The Trader Joe’s business model explained.

Four years after a disastrous MTV performance had led him to avoid the public, Rose was back on stage.

How virtual worlds like Ultima Online form economies and the sellers who make a living in digital goods.

How the Weinstein Brothers barked their way into an empire and then lost it.

Overcrowding in prisons leads to doubling up inmates in solitary confinement, regardless of their homicidal intentions or mental health.

How Irv Teibel pioneered the capturing and repackaging of nature’s acoustics.