On the Connecticut priest who dealt methamphetamine from his church and ran a sex ring from his apartment.

Shulamith Firestone, one of the first radical feminists, helped to create a new society. But she couldn’t live in it.

A 22,000-word breakdown of Kubrick’s “odyssey portraying the span of millennia.”

An interview with novelist Marilynne Robinson, conducted by a graduating student.

A profile of Elizabeth Gilbert, whose bestselling memoir may have sunk her literary career.

What did soccer have to do with two brutal murders after a pickup game?

The journey from a Sudanese refugee camp to an Atlanta police academy.

A battle against an invasive breed of ants has begun in Texas. It also might be over already.

“I guess what you post on Facebook matters.” An 18-year-old faces 10 years in jail for a sarcastic threat on Facebook.

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

Scientists quarrel about the fate of animals living in the 1,600 square mile exclusion zone.

Working on the high seas is always dangerous, but the Dona Liberta has a particularly bad reputation.

What is the sickness that leads inhabitants to sleep for days?

Virginia state senator Creigh Deeds, a year after his mentally ill son stabbed him multple times before committing suicide.

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

A trip to Nashville to interview the writer Ann Patchett.

While fleeing their Mali stronghold, al-Qaida left behind documents describing not how to terrorize a population, but how to govern.

The drugs did not entirely deliver on their promise of anxiety reduction.

On the mysterious life story of blues icon Blind Willie Johnson and a half-century of attempts to fill in the blanks.

From the Greeks to George Lucas, 2,200 years of failure.

Three days, 64 people shot, six of them dead: Memorial Day weekend in Chicago.

Inside the chaotic race to build Elon Musk’s hyperloop.

The story of a newscaster’s suicide.

The rise and fall of a violent underground anti-racist group.