Tom Justice was once a cyclist chasing Olympic gold. Then he began using his bike for a much different purpose: robbing banks.

For one writer, “Hot Vax Summer” is a slow climb.

How PCC, once an inmate soccer team and now Brazil’s most notorious prison gang, coordinated seven days of riots throughout São Paulo using mobile phones.

Alberto Nisman accused Iran and Argentina of colluding to bury a terrorist attack. Did it get him killed?

A month-long tour inside L.A.’s cultish world of wellness.

In Cyprus with those who lost big by simply depositing their savings with Laiki.

Arno Smit bilked millions out of Tulare County dairy workers (and at least one wealthy widow). Then he disappeared.

A trip to Japan and a glimpse of our automated future.

On children accused of sorcery in Congo.

Why “Father of Botox” Arnold Klein, whose famous clients once included Michael Jackson and Elizabeth Taylor, thinks everyone’s out to get him.

After years of sexual abuse by a neighbor, a teenager takes matters into his own hands.

One man describes his family’s tradition of delivering rhyming couplets at celebrations.

Before embarking on dangerous rock climbs, Matt Samet would use whiskey to wash down powerful prescription tranquilizers. A first-person account of extreme addiction.

Boko Haram has abducted thousands of children and trained them as soldiers. Four survivors tell their story.

They’re supposed to safeguard pretrial detainees. But America’s oldest law enforcement agency is suffering from a massive dereliction of duty.

How an HIV specialist in Germany is using media law to erase reporting of sexual abuse allegations against him.

Trump came out and took a lunch break, still being mobbed by cameras on the way in and out. On his way back in, I asked him how he would feel about getting picked for a jury. He paused, weighing whether to grace me with a precious sound bite. He turned to me and said, “If it happens, it happens.”

“Look out at Twitter, at YouTube, at cable news. Behold a whole precarious world of media hopefuls swarming every bitter inch of the culture war, filming angry Americans, filming each other, filming themselves, grimly determined to find or frame a few seconds of a reality to sell.”

What to do about climate change.

A family loses everything in the Fort McMurray wildfire.

Leaking from the inside, leaking from the outside.

On the master palindromist, Barry Duncan.