Meet Gene Locks, the onetime Princeton quarterback suing the NFL on behalf of 4,000 former players.

On Ahmad Chalabi, the con man who pushed America to war. Chalabi died on Tuesday at the age of 71.

A profile of Kehinde Wiley, a painter who inserts the “brown faces” that have historically been relegated to the background in Western art.

The inquiry into a nurse’s suicide after she was on the receiving end of a crank call.

How to buy college football players, in the words of a man who delivers the money.

How a bipolar diagnosis follows you from the top to the bottom of professional basketball.

The perilous existence of confidential informants.

On high school basketball star Chris Tang and the pressures of being the “Great Yellow Hope.”

The fight to vaccinate children in the border regions between Pakistan and Afghanistan as part of an attempt to eradicate polio worldwide.

How Thomas Drake, senior executive at the NSA, came to face some of the gravest charges that can be brought against an American citizen.

Miriam Carey died at the hands of the Secret Service. Over a year later, her family has no real answers about what happened to her.

He was the world’s foremost collector of presidential memorabilia, an outsider with a pathological need to fit in. He was also a thief.

Inside the lives of Sri Lanka’s Tamils as they emerge from a multi-decade war that defined and nearly destroyed them.

An investigation into the myth of actress Frances Farmer’s lobotomy.

The head of the Social Security Administration’s secret life as a respected poet.

Argentina’s Lio Messi, the best soccer player on the planet, stands all of 5’7” and needed growth-hormone injections to get there.

A report from Minnesota’s Angle Township, which was put in the U.S. instead of Canada by a map-maker’s error.

Putin, Medvedev, and how the Russian security agency FSB became the “new nobility.”

Deciphering the rise of a lifestyle guru who sells self-absorption as the ultimate luxury product.

An investigation leads to the deepest reaches of the internet.

Is the Chinese government behind one of the boldest art-crime waves in history?

The story of Edward Averill, a blind man with one foot who robbed a bank in Austin, Texas.

With its cheap geothermal energy and low crime rate, Iceland has become the world’s leading miner of digital currency. Then the crypto-crooks showed up.

The moderators who keep Google and Youtube free of beheadings and child porn now have PTSD themselves.

It began with a series of anonymous sexual-harassment complaints that the writer knew were false. But the truth was far stranger.