Knowing she had the legal right to die helped Paralympic gold medalist Marieke Vervoort live her life.

On the owner’s 20-year evolution from disruptive force to formidable constant.

A financier and his wife build a mansion in the jungles of Costa Rica, set up a wildlife preserve, and appear to slowly, steadily lose their minds. A spiral of handguns, angry locals, armed guards, uncut diamonds, abduction plots, and a bedroom blazing with 550 Tiffany lamps ends with a body and a mystery: Did John Felix Bender die by his own hand? Or did Ann Bender kill him to escape their crumbling dream?

Diagnosed with a rare blood disease, the author reflects on illness and addiction.

A bookkeeper’s $9 million swindle, her lavish second life, and the boss who didn’t notice.

The bumpy ride from St. Petersburg and Moscow, through a Russia slipping back into the 19th century.

The search for a disgraced ex-LAPD officer bent on killing his former colleagues and their families.

In Hollywood’s new blockbuster economy, the actors who portray superheroes are as interchangeable as the costumes they wear.

The fight to grant asylum to the translators who worked—and sometimes fought—alongside U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Why has the Palestinian cause failed to produce a Martin Luther King-like leader with a platform based on non-violence?

A look at the artists and writers who drive for a New York cab company. The story that inspired Taxi.

Why do we honor dead soldiers rather than the fighters who deserted and the activists who demanded peace?

How the author writes best-selling non-fiction books without the ability to leave her house.

The article that kept the New Yorker alive was written by a debutante. Who happened to be married to Irving Berlin.

Nowadays, the young and privileged view un- and under-paid assistantships as the road to a successful creative career. Are they deluding themselves?

A report from Camp Hope, the tent city that’s sprung up next to the Chilean mine where 33 men have been trapped since early August.

The “Shaggy Defense,” the “Little Man Defense,” and more—live from R. Kelly’s 2008 child pornography trial.

The hot dog black market and the immigrants it exploits.

In Peru, an unsolved killing has brought the Mashco Piro into contact with the outside world.

Inside the campaign to canonize the fire department chaplain who died on September 11.

How Shane Battier could score zero points in an NBA game and still be the most important player on the floor.

The dramatic imbalance in pay and power has created the conditions for abuse.

How the Coast Guard expanded the war on drugs into international waters.

A report from the Philippines, “the test lab for fake news.”