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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Climate change is bringing tourism and tension to Longyearbyen on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.

Drought is shrinking one of the country’s largest reservoirs, revealing a hidden Eden.

The men who are trying to find out if wireless carjacking is possible.

The anti-human trafficking stings conducted by Operation Underground Railroad are flashy, exciting, camera-ready. Whether or not they truly help victims is another question.

During the financial crisis, Sal Pane ran a multimillion-dollar mortgage scam. A few years later, with the help of some high-profile media appearances and a dead man's resume, he won the government contract to clean up Ebola in New York.

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

On the late comedian Bill Hicks, just as a performance on Letterman is deemed unfit for network TV.

In his work with the White House, is Mohammed bin Salman driving out extremism, or merely seizing power for himself?

What happened next for the Barden family.

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.

A well-known attorney helped land a $2 billion settlement for Gulf Coast seafood-industry workers. But who was he really representing?

On the O.J. Simpson verdict and the Million Man March.

On the “Pacification Process,” or how we ended up in the least violent moment in our species’ existence.