On jazz and the hipster psychopath.

Life in Nucla, Colorado.

How franchises became the movie business.

In the beginning, they were known as die Dönermorde – the kebab murders. The victims had little in common, apart from immigrant backgrounds and the modest businesses they ran.

How cable sports channels extort hundreds of dollars per year out of every cable subscriber for programming that less than 10% regularly watch.

After decades of failed revitalization strategies, a town of 10,000 tries another.

Filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón and his four years of production on Gravity.

What went wrong when a group of canyoneers was caught by a flash flood in Zion National Park.

Joe Arridy had an IQ of 46. In 1939, he was executed for a crime he neither understood nor committed.

Mel and Norma Gabler of Longview, Texas, want to tell your children what to learn in school.

Prosecutors have spun creative theories to explain away scientific evidence when DNA tests haven’t fit their version of events.

A married father of two tracks down his free-living doppelgänger, a musician who has avoided responsibility at every turn, to see who’s happier.

A profile of 12-year-old actress Elle Fanning, Dakota’s sister.

He hacked a hospital to protest their treatment of a sick child. Now he’s facing 15 years.

Eric Schneiderman faces a #MeToo reckoning of his own.

Veterans are taking their own lives on VA hospital campuses, a desperate form of protest against a system that they feel hasn’t helped them.

An attempt to understand why, after 50 years of decline, more and more young women are suddenly embracing religious life.

Trump transformed immigration through hundreds of quiet measures. Before they can be reversed, they have to be uncovered.

Charles Pierce’s classic GQ profile of Tiger Woods, annotated.

A startup’s plan to launch a fleet of cheap, small, ultra-efficient imaging satellites and revolutionize data collection.

Stefan Simchowitz has supported dozens of emerging young artists. Why do so many people hate him?

A visit with Ai Weiwei, Laura Poitras, and Jacob Appelbaum, three people who live in justifiable paranoia of government surveillance.

Mary Ellen Johnson, a 48-year-old author, befriends a teenager convicted of murdering his parents.

A year-long investigation of America’s coroners and medical examiners reveals a deeply flawed, deeply troubling system.