Life after scoring 100-plus points in a basketball game.

How humans evolve in the modern world.

The bureaucratic hell of enforcing legislation in Washington.

“I never attacked anyone weak. Only bullies, secure in their courts, bureacracies, fifedoms.”

Covering an election in Peru’s largest prison.

In North Georgia, two men feud over a quarter-mile property line.

A personal history of class in America.

Renting in one of the most expensive American cities.

On the biggest food fraud in U.S. history.

Investigating the spike in Afghan-on-American military murders.

The capitalist evangelism of Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In feminist manifesto.

Memories of her father and her time in Tennessee.

Why Obama won’t rein in the NSA.

How a substandard abortion provider stays in business.

Is the anonymous, reclusive inventor of Bitcoin this 64-year-old man in Los Angeles?

On (not) getting by in the gig economy.

An investigation into serial killings in a small North Carolina city.

Inside the most sensational murder in the history of study abroad.

Part one of a planned nine-part serialized biography of Harrison Gray Otis, the “inventor of modern Los Angeles.”

Future installments will include Otis’s interlude as “emperor of the Pribilofs,” his military atrocities in the Philippines, his bitter legal battles with the Theosophists, the Otis-Chandler empire in the Mexicali Valley, the Times bombing in 1910, the notorious discovery of fellatio in Long Beach, and Otis’s quixotic plan for world government.

The story of the Abbottabad raid, in detail.

Portrait of a Chinese-American family living in New York.

The story of eight young people who died in a New Orleans squat fire.

A Montana sheriff and a manhunt in the mountains.

In Chicago at the 130th National Funeral Directors Conference.

Hanging out in New Orleans.