In an excerpt from her book, the late Northern Irish journalist joined a search for a missing youth.

Fifty years ago, a police shooting set in motion a decades-long chase across the American West.

A profile of the Whole Foods CEO, who, despite a rash of problems with his company, firmly believes he’s seen the future of American business.

On an artist who’s spent nearly 50 years bending the rules of space and light, and his life’s work, an extinct volcano in Arizona where he has been developing a network of tunnels and underground rooms since 1974.

Revisiting California’s grape vines more than 70 years after the publication of The Grapes of Wrath.

For hundreds of years, there were rumors of a shipwrecked treasure on the Oregon coast. But no one found anything, until Cameron La Follette began digging.

Exploring the dark and far-reaching consequences of our dependence on the Internet.

A grandmother tells her story.

On loving Taco Bell, as a half-Mexican. A James Beard Award nominee.

Reconstructing an ancient African civilization heretofore mostly ignored.

How a disease came back.

The early days of electronic spreadsheets and how the tool transformed business.

On the last day of their junior year at Harvard, one roommate kills the other, then hangs herself. The press descends. A year later, a reporter searches for the real story.

In many parts of America, like Corinth, Miss., judges are locking up defendants who can’t pay—sometimes for months at a time.

Meet Gene Locks, the onetime Princeton quarterback suing the NFL on behalf of 4,000 former players.

On Ahmad Chalabi, the con man who pushed America to war. Chalabi died on Tuesday at the age of 71.

The inquiry into a nurse’s suicide after she was on the receiving end of a crank call.

The perilous existence of confidential informants.

On high school basketball star Chris Tang and the pressures of being the “Great Yellow Hope.”

How Thomas Drake, senior executive at the NSA, came to face some of the gravest charges that can be brought against an American citizen.

Miriam Carey died at the hands of the Secret Service. Over a year later, her family has no real answers about what happened to her.

Inside the lives of Sri Lanka’s Tamils as they emerge from a multi-decade war that defined and nearly destroyed them.

An investigation into the myth of actress Frances Farmer’s lobotomy.

The head of the Social Security Administration’s secret life as a respected poet.

Putin, Medvedev, and how the Russian security agency FSB became the “new nobility.”