The inside story of how an ABC nature shoot in Africa end up producing  a snuff film.

In post-Shock and Awe Baghdad, the relationship between a war reporter and his Iraqi guide falls apart.

The Great Recession meant great things for Nick Popovich, who gets paid by banks to take planes back from hard-up millionaires.

Inside the real lives of people who came early to intentionally provoking, confusing, and generally screwing with strangers online.

A blow by blow account of the seizure of a French cruise ship by Somali pirates.

On what you come to appreciate after a short apprenticeship with paramedics.

A tech neophyte looks for answers in Silicon Valley, “the last place in America where people are this optimistic.”

Supply and demand paid-sex economics, ‘hobbyist’ internet message boards, and the power of reviews.

A profile of the man who teaches America’s police to be “sheepdogs.”

Guy Gentile flipped, and flipped again.

The complicated life and death of Hideki Irabu, a pitcher who was supposed to become a Yankee legend and found heartache instead.

An email cache offers a look behind the Breitbart curtain.

“Who we become has so much to do with the experiences we had, and how we survived.”

The behind-closed-doors story.

How one of the world’s top conductors became ensnared in a WWI-era scandal.

In the midst of a national crisis, mothers addicted to drugs struggle to get off them — for their babies’ sake, and their own.

A law-enforcement official released the documents after finding that additional suspicious transactions did not appear in a government database.

What happened next for the Barden family.

One man’s quest to ride the strangest wave.

The enormous life of Anthony Bourdain, according to those who knew him best.

Justin Alexander went searching for higher meaning. No one expected the quest to end in a search for his body.

For decades, Jeffrey Lendrum went to extreme lengths to snatch falcon eggs from their nests and sell them to the highest bidder. Then he got caught.

The story of a bank robber who risked his life to put a killer on death row.

Why one physician took the risk of becoming an F.B.I. informant to expose alleged Medicare fraud.

Computer programming once had much better gender balance than it does today. What went wrong?