A reporter heads to Nauru, a tiny island nation in the Pacific, to track down the hub of a worldwide money-laundering operation—a shack filled with computers, air-conditioners, and little else.

A CD plant employee ushered in the modern era of music piracy by teaming up with a shadowy “Scene” crew on IRC chat.

Alex Nieto died because a series of white men saw him as a menacing intruder in the place he’d spent his whole life.

Buried in media scholar Jonathan Albright’s research was proof of a massive political misinformation campaign. Now he’s taking on the the world’s biggest platforms before it’s too late.

Randy Quaid and his wife Evi have fled to Canada and are living in their car. They are seeking asylum from the menace of the “Hollywood Star Whackers.”

The Capitol was breached by Trump supporters who had been declaring, at rally after rally, that they would go to violent lengths to keep the President in power. A chronicle of an attack foretold.

A profile of the Aurora shooter.

The case of a teenager who didn’t kill his classmates—but talked about it.

Steven Donziger, an American lawyer, headed up a successful lawsuit against Chevron on behalf of Ecuadorans. Then the legal tables turned on him.

The challenge of finding answers about some abandoned cremains.

The story of a transplant from a 26-year-old bike mechanic to a 41-year-old fireman with severe burns.

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

Inside the dual legacies of NFL players’ union boss DeMaurice Smith.

“Stupid kids doing something stupid, simple as that. This is how many people in Baraboo remembered the whole ordeal to me four months later. What almost no one in town seemed interested in asking was, ‘Why were our kids stupid in this particular way?’”

A flood-fueled adventure on a forgotten stretch of the Colorado.

The story of Frank Bourassa, the world’s most prolific counterfeiter.

The liberation of the Williams sisters.

Looking after the kodokushi – the elderly who die alone – of Japan.

On the life and death of The Voice contestant Anthony Riley.

The inside story of Bob Dylan’s Blood On The Tracks.

The improbable life and career of the sculptor-turned-musician.

On a neuroscientist’s personal mission to solve the mystery of how the brain processes time.

On “Poor Hartley,” the son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

An Englishman’s account of the first modern Olympic games.