In the early 1960s, Middle Eastern guys in Brooklyn introduced America to Arabic rock-and-roll.

How a childhood gorilla-hunting safari and a string of sexless marriages led Alice Sheldon to become reclusive sci-fi legend James Tiptree Jr.

A 2006 profile of Mark Zuckerberg as Facebook opened from a college-only site to a public social network.

The brain of Henry Molaison gave science most of what it knows about memory. Dr. Jacopo Annese believes there’s even more to learn.

How Cantor Fitzgerald is bringing the principles of day trading to sports betting in Vegas.

Inside Office 39, a state-run counterfeiting operation designed to keep Kim Jong-il flush.

How YouTube went from ubiquitous to profitable; and where it goes next.

On the enduring racial segregation in Chicago and why it’s an issue no mayoral candidate is willing to touch.

“If genius is hard to define, madness is even more so.” One chess champion’s take on the tortured life of another.

A team of researchers has a controversial plan to root fake data out of science.

From 2009 to 2014, police in Florida shot 827 people. Many of these incidents were avoidable and unnecessary.

A brutal custody battle raises questions about who has a right to rear a child and what the legal meaning of a family should be.

After their mother was deported to Mexico, the Marin siblings faced an impossible choice: Stay or go.

West Virginia has the highest overdose death rate in the country. Locals are fighting to save their neighbors—and their towns—from destruction.

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

There are just a handful of people using iron lungs in the U.S. And the machines they rely on to live are wearing out.

No one knows quite what to do with these coerced masks made from the faces of Native American POWS.

It was burned and sunk to hide the crime. Now its probable remains have been located.

He was the consensus #1 pick in last year’s NBA draft. Then, seemingly overnight, he forgot how to shoot.

Thirty years ago, a series of documentaries introduced the world to an isolated tribe in Papua New Guinea. What happened when the cameras left?

The science on the link is clear, but the alcohol industry has worked hard to downplay it.

First the red bees arrived. Then a Red Hook cherry factory’s true purpose came to light.

All Artur Samarin wanted to be was a normal American teenager. So that’s what he became.

Inside Arnold’s manic, occasionally dishonest quest to find tapes of Trump using slurs on the set of The Apprentice.

David Boies argued Bush v. Gore all the way to the Supreme Court. He lost the case, but in the process gained another client: Harvey Weinstein.