On the intrigue surrounding Dr. Zhivago’s publication.

On the factories of India and the women whose lives they ruin.

The congressman (and future Mayor of New York) vs. the South American assassin.

The inner workings of a high school basketball team stacked with international talent.

A profile of Larry Garrison, the man who “gets paid to bring tabloid stories to TV news programs.”

What are the foreign policy views of Michele Bachmann, Tim Pawlenty, Rick Perry and Mitt Romney?

A newspaper writer’s attempt to solve the mystery of a homeless man who claims to be a once-famous boxer.

Twenty-five years later, the deaths of a couple on the Trail remain shocking – and mostly unexplained.

The surreal pageantry of the North Korean Film Festival makes Hollywood look demure.

Inside the final weeks of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

A profile of John McCain during the 2000 presidential race.

When a spring breaker goes missing, a seasoned investigator uncovers devil worship and a sinister cult at the heart of the drug trade.

Brutality and resistance on the front lines of Hong Kong’s battle for democracy.

The dark secret life of The Great Zucchini, Washington D.C.’s most sought after children’s birthday party entertainer.

To deal with climate change and power the cars of tomorrow, we’ll have to solve the cobalt problem.

“It’s just beyond our experience—we have nothing in our evolutionary history that prepares us or primes us, no intellectual architecture, to try and grasp the remoteness of those odds.”

Jeffrey Holliman was deep in debt and out of options. So he took to the woods outside his small East Texas town. Then he started taking from his neighbors.

A profile of "L.A.'s most adventurous eater," restaurant critic Jonathan Gold, who died Saturday.

Previously: a 2012 interview with Gold in The Believer.

“Professional boxing is the only major American sport whose primary, and often murderous, energies are not coyly deflected by such artifacts as balls and pucks.”

A growing movement is seeking a deeper knowledge of themselves through tracking sleep, exercise, sex, food, location, productivity. Technology has made it possible—but hasn’t taught us how to interpret the findings.

In the late 1990s, a serial killer found his victims in Yosemite National Park.

What Gregg Popovich, 5-time NBA champion coach, looks for in players.

Four American rock climbers are kidnapped by guerillas in Kyrgyzstan.

In Kansas, girls didn’t have a wrestling championship. Mya Kretzer changed that.

Seattle’s Aurora Bridge has been the most notorious suicide site in the Northwest for 80 years. On one man’s fight to erect a fence and the race to save one last jumper.