What does it take to win the World Taxidermy Championships?

How smallpox went from eradicated disease to the ideal weapon of bioterrorists.

Anesthesiologists, in hugely disproportionate numbers compared to other doctors, are getting high.

What happens to a subway operator after someone commits suicide by jumping in front of his train?

Returning to the scenes of three famous deaths in Seattle.

On the psychology of a rescue worker after years of responding to disaster.

Did Michell Carter’s texts cause Conrad Roy to kill himself?

What happens to American children when their parents are deported?

The billionaire founder of Renaissance Technologies turns to science.

To the KGB and back.

“By asking very simple questions, people have said the most astonishing things to me.”

An electrician’s odd plot to make $607,933.50.

How Black America talks to the White House.

Tracking stolen firearms through the black market, from gun store thefts to crime scenes.

Life in Mexico immediately after being forced to leave the U.S.

One man’s quest to stop horse racing deaths.

There has never been a better time to commit financial crimes.

A singer keeps getting close to stardom. And then something falls apart.

Trying to parent my Black teenagers through protest and pandemic.

In Minneapolis, a group of activists take over a Sheraton and open it to the homeless, banning police.

You’re 19 years old. You get famous overnight. You move to LA. Now what?

He wants to save classics from whiteness. Can the field survive?

A Canadian man won’t touch money, except to destroy it.

“It was offensive to me on a certain level that when Saw and those other movies came out, people said, “Well, torture porn really started with Seven.” Fuck you. There’s enough pervy shit going on in Seven that I don’t have to get on my high horse to defend its artistic sensibilities.”

Cheryl Shuman has been a coupon queen, an optician to the stars and the plaintiff in a lawsuit against Steven Segal. Now she’s the face of the high-end weed market.