Sixty years later, a dishonorably discharged World War I veteran makes one final appeal. The 1980 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.

On the factories of India and the women whose lives they ruin.

A battle against an invasive breed of ants has begun in Texas. It also might be over already.

The case of Gilberto Valle, “The Cannibal Cop,” and the line between criminal thoughts and action.

The congressman (and future Mayor of New York) vs. the South American assassin.

Stuck between the Taliban and the U.S. Military, Afghanistan’s farmers risk their lives both when they grow, and when they refuse to grow, fields of poppies.

One part rapist, one part con-man; the story of the seemingly unconvictable Hy Doan.

A profile of 21-year-old Dan Cates, who made $5.5 million playing 145,215 hands in 2010.

The inner workings of a high school basketball team stacked with international talent.

In 1991, Frank Sterling confessed to a crime he didn’t commit. His story highlights a common – and controversial – method of police interrogation.

The emergence of a radio phenomenon popular amongst young demographic believed lost to interactive distractions.

The story of dog-scent lineup innovator Keith Pikett and the not-so-scientific science behind forensics.

An investigation into the sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests in Alaska Native villages.

For 18 months, Coatesville, Penn., was besieged with an improbable number of arsons.  But who started the fires – and why?

A profile of Larry Garrison, the man who “gets paid to bring tabloid stories to TV news programs.”

The story of the 1969 murder spree by Charles Manson and “Family” as told by those close to the case.

The story of a high school quarterback’s descent into madness, and its tragic end.

A letter to his unborn son about the wonders of being an only child.

The author gets a security guard job at this aging textile factory. Part of the City by City project.

A profile of filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar during the 2004 Cannes International Film Festival.

A profile of 17-year-old Teresa Scanlan, the newly crowned Miss America.

How Frank and Jamie McCourt bought the Dodgers for “for less than the price of an oceanfront home in Southampton” and eventually became entangled in one of the most expensive divorces in California history, which laid bare their finances and confirmed what many already knew: they had bankrupted one of the most storied franchises in baseball.

In all, the McCourts reportedly took $108 million out of the team in personal distributions over five years—a sum that Molly Knight, a reporter with ESPN who has extensively covered the story, notes is eerily similar to the cash payment that she says Frank McCourt has claimed he made for the team.

What are the foreign policy views of Michele Bachmann, Tim Pawlenty, Rick Perry and Mitt Romney?

By 2006, S&P was making its own study of such loans' performance. It singled out 639,981 loans made in 2002 to see if its benign assumptions had held up. They hadn't. Loans with piggybacks were 43% more likely to default than other loans, S&P found. In April 2006, S&P said it would raise by July the amount of collateral underwriters must include in many new mortgage portfolios. For instance, S&P could require that mortgage pools have extra loans in them, since it now expected a larger number to go bad. Still, S&P didn't lower its ratings on existing securities, saying it had to further monitor the performance of loans backing them. It thus helped the market for these loans hold up through the end of 2006.