Kobe Bryant knows who he is, and he’s happy to tell you all about it.

More than a year ago, Nevada death row prisoner Scott Dozier gave up his legal appeals and asked to be executed. He’s still waiting.

What we know (and don’t), more than a year after American diplomats began to suffer strange, concussion-like symptoms in Cuba.

Learning to live in Earth’s coldest conditions.

How the disappearing bayou town of Jean Lafitte, Louisiana is trying to delay its inevitable end.

A dispatch from Cape Town, where surprising things can happen when it feels like the world is about to end.

The wondrous—and occasionally weird—relationship between the children’s-music superstar, his fans, and the man he used to be.

Did the NBA executive use social media to secretly disparage his players and defend his decisions?

A secret network of women is working outside the law and the medical establishment to provide safe, cheap home abortions.

Three days in Wyoming as the hip-hop firebrand tends to his scars.

A “reckless” fracking company, poisoned springs, and a family forced to buy water at Walmart.

She secretly recorded her brother, Holland’s most notorious criminal, confessing to multiple murders. Will he exact revenge?

We knew everything we needed to know, and nothing stood in our way. Nothing, that is, except ourselves.

On the difficulty of diagnosing chronic lyme disease and the persistent struggle to do no harm.

Inside a sleazy FBI sting involving diet clinics, fitness models, money laundering, and a supposed plot to hire a hitman.

Inside Iraq’s most notorious prison, an Army interrogator named Joshua Casteel came fact to face with a truth about the war—and himself.

Children film themselves chewing, whispering and tapping to give their adult audience an ASMR buzz. But at what cost?

Nannies and housecleaners have some of the hardest, least secure jobs in the nation. Now they’re organizing to change that.

Debra Koosed was diagnosed with dementia at 65. That’s when she decided she no longer wanted to live.

John Franzese Jr. helped send his father, notorious Colombo family mobster Sonny Franzese, to prison. Then he turned up in Indianapolis.

The former NBA player is forever linked to the murder of his girlfriend.

Vivia, an intellectually disabled woman, had long wanted a child but decided instead to adopt a doll.

What prompts a woman to exit society and marry God? Inside a modern convent in Texas.

How a childhood of anger led the founder of 8chan to create one of the darkest corners of the internet.

A journey to explore the rising authoritarianism in Hungary and its weirdest fringe: the people who believe they’ve descended from Attila the Hun.