“In my view, Trump wouldn’t be president if not for Bob.”

A conversation with 97-year-old Ben Ferencz.

A year in the life of Gwen Woods, after her son was killed by police.

A teenager in a dreary suburb of Paris live-streams her own suicide—and acquires a morbid kind of digital celebrity.

Inside the big and not especially scientific business of lavender and frankincense.

During the 90s, David Bazan was Christian indie-rock’s first big crossover star. Then he stopped believing.

How the federal government abused its power to seize property for a border fence.

More than a year ago, Nevada death row prisoner Scott Dozier gave up his legal appeals and asked to be executed. He’s still waiting.

What we know (and don’t), more than a year after American diplomats began to suffer strange, concussion-like symptoms in Cuba.

For years he used fake identities to charm women out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Then his victims banded together to take him down.

“I never got any help, any kind of therapy. I never told anyone.”

A walkout mostly failed to secure more funding for schools, but it has spawned a movement of politically engaged Okies.

Even soldiers who fight wars from a safe distance have found themselves traumatized.

Three days in Wyoming as the hip-hop firebrand tends to his scars.

Rojava becomes the Spanish Civil War of modern times for a ragtag group of leftists revolutionaries.

Dick Cavett, the “last great intellectual talk-show host,” at 81.

World-famous Houston surgeon Bud Frazier spent decades developing a revolutionary device that could save millions of lives.

On Bob Woodward’s “rather eerie aversion to engaging the ramifications of what people say to him.”

The actual story behind those viral college acceptance videos out of T.M. Landry.

Inside Iraq’s most notorious prison, an Army interrogator named Joshua Casteel came fact to face with a truth about the war—and himself.

How an undercover oil industry mercenary tricked pipeline opponents into believing he was one of them.

How a brilliant self-made software programmer from South Africa single-handedly built an online startup that became one of the largest individual contributors to America’s burgeoning painkiller epidemic. In his world, everything was for sale. Pure methamphetamine manufactured in North Korea. Yachts built to outrun coast guards. Police protection and judges’ favor. Crates of military-grade weapons. Private jets full of gold. Missile-guidance systems. Unbreakable encryption. African militias. Explosives. Kidnapping. Torture. Murder. It's a world that lurks just outside of our everyday perception, in the dark corners of the internet we never visit, the quiet ports where ships slip in by night, the back room of the clinic down the street.

It was just a kayaking trip. Then it upended their lives.

A profile of a dresser of celebrities.

A profile of Edna Buchanan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning crime reporter for the Miami Herald during its heyday.