But despite all that has been promised, almost nothing has been built back in Haiti, better or otherwise. Within Port-au-Prince, some 3 million people languish in permanent misery, subject to myriad experiments at "fixing" a nation that, to those who are attempting it, stubbornly refuses to be fixed. Mountains of rubble remain in the streets, hundreds of thousands of people continue to live in weather-beaten tents, and cholera, a disease that hadn't been seen in Haiti for 60 years, has swept over the land, infecting more than a quarter million people.

Project Alamo, Trump’s digital marketing and media operation, is building a base for his post-election future.

He has seduced and swindled young women for millions and is a fugitive from justice in several countries.

Carbanak’s suspected ringleader is under arrest, but $1.2 billion remains missing, and his malware attacks live on.

A small town in Nebraska promised a warm welcome to a family of Katrina evacuees. It didn’t last.

The politics behind the anti-trend trend known as “Normcore” turn out to be as conservative as ever.

The author discovers devastating secrets while going through her late father’s belongings.

Yeah, you’ve seen that headline before. The difference? This time it’s not journalists trying to do the saving. It’s Google.

Tracing an airstrike halfway around the world back to an American bomb factory.

Kidnappers in Mexico have changed their business model from retail to wholesale—instead of extorting a handful of rich families, they are targeting thousands of undocumented migrants.

What do you do when you think a family member is a murderer? Step one: stop eating her food.

The rise and fall of Lou Pearlman; blimp impresario, packager of boy bands like Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC, molester, fraudster, and ultimately fugitive from justice.

A dispatch from a tiny-house convention:

Here the stories pivoted around Turning Tiny. Before Tiny, there was an unhappy marriage, unpaid bills, stifling office work, a home of 2,500 square feet or more; after Tiny came freedom, new love, debt relief, self-employment, and, of course, a handmade nest.

A hardcore night of Dungeons & Dragons with artist Zak Smith and his coterie of porn star players.

A profile of former Rutgers basketball coach Mike Rice, who was fired in April after a video of him berating players went viral.

An early profile of Carole Baskin, proprietor of Big Cat Rescue in Tampa.

When a rash of sensational museum robberies stunned Europe, police zeroed in on a fearsome crime family—and a flashy new generation of young outlaws.