Tracking cyberextortionists and their roving swarms of bots.

Squatters in Buffalo, NY enjoy a life of “decadent poverty” fixing up palatial mansions.

An anatomy of a failure.

A former pilot of miniature cocaine-smuggling submarines tells his story.

A profile of photographer Bill Cunningham.

A profile of former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.

How a loathsome band makes gobs of money.

A profile of Jordan at 50.

A profile of a suburban New Jersey fifth-grader named Colin Duffy.

George Trow’s Within the Context of No Context was a brilliant, scary vision of a cultural end-time. Then, having described it, he lived it, spiraling into madness.

A profile of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, prime minister of Turkey.

A profile of then-Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz.

How a Massachusetts psychotherapist fell for a Nigerian e-mail scam.

David Chang’s manic quest for a flawless restaurant.

He helped build Jewish American support for Israel. What’s his legacy now?

“On paper, [DJ Khaled] doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. He’s released eight full-length albums but doesn’t actually rap on any of them. He’s perhaps the most quoted figure in hip-hop, able to create viral catch phrases with an ease that marketing executives dream about. He’s played a serious role in the hip-hop industry throughout his career, yet he’s perceived almost exclusively as a meme by fans across the nation.”

On infertility.

I imagine my breath filling every part of my body: My little toe. My ankle. My calf. My knees. My thighs. My pelvis. When I get to my belly, I picture my breath filling the cavities in which my organs float, planets in space. I think about the planet of my uterus, which no longer carries an embryo. Tears slide into my ears as my teacher bends over me to press oil that smells like almonds into my third eye.

A behind-the-scenes look at a U.S. attack against civilians near Khod: “the high-tech wizardry would fail in its most elemental purpose: to tell the difference between friend and foe.”

Amid the brutal civil war, a town fought off the regime and the fundamentalists—and dared to hold an election. Can its experiment in democracy survive?

With “The Apprentice,” the TV producer mythologized Trump—then a floundering D-lister—as the ultimate titan, paving his way to the Presidency.

Few men have acquired so scandalous a reputation as did Basil Zaharoff, alias Count Zacharoff, alias Prince Zacharias Basileus Zacharoff, known to his intimates as “Zedzed.” Born in Anatolia, then part of the Ottoman Empire, perhaps in 1849, Zaharoff was a brothel tout, bigamist and arsonist, a benefactor of great universities and an intimate of royalty who reached his peak of infamy as an international arms dealer -- a “merchant of death,” as his many enemies preferred it.

On a Saturday evening in February, a 45-year-old Uber driver and father of two named Jason Dalton got into his car, left his home near Kalamazoo, Michigan, and began shooting people. But the strangest, most unfathomable thing about the night that Dalton killed and killed again is what he did in between.

Life inside Long Island’s largest cluster of sex offenders.