A profile of lawyer Jacques Vergès, who died yesterday after decades spent defending war criminals, terrorists and dictators.

The lost dream of Korleone Young, a high school basketball star who skipped college and flamed out after only one NBA season.

For 18 months, Coatesville, Penn., was besieged with an improbable number of arsons.  But who started the fires – and why?

A profile of filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar during the 2004 Cannes International Film Festival.

The international battle over 17 tons of coins discovered by an American deep-sea treasure hunting company.

How one woman’s sexual assault by four University of Oregon football players in 1980 unwittingly led to the state’s expansive free speech protections.

A report from the border of ISIS territory in Iraq, where civilians are battling to survive.

In his own final days, a Right to Die activist tells the story of his secret, illegal assisted-suicide service.

There are two roles to play in the new world of on-demand everything: royalty or servant.

Beatrice Munyenyezi told her New Hampshire neighbors that she was refugee from the Rwandan genocide. Half of that was true.

John Friend, who founded a new school of yoga, says the practice should be about both exercise and spirituality. Oh, and making money.

How Irv Teibel pioneered the capturing and repackaging of nature’s acoustics.

A Marxist archaeologist uncovers traces of fugitive slave settlements deep in the Great Dismal Swamp.

The story of Jennifer Frey, a sportswriting prodigy who drank herself to death.

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

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

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

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

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

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

As mass detentions and surveillance dominate the lives of China’s Uyghurs and Kazakhs, a woman struggles to free herself.

Y.A. Tittle, an 87-year-old Hall of Fame quarterback with dementia, travels to his hometown for the last time.

A profile of the highest-paid female executive in America, who was born male.

A profile of Prince as Diamonds and Pearls was released, based mostly off a brief phone call, all the access he’ll allow.