How one man’s imagined discovery of a sex-trafficking camp in the Sonoran Desert gained life online — and in the real world.

A statewide network of schools for disabled students has trapped black children in neglect and isolation.

The actual story behind those viral college acceptance videos out of T.M. Landry.

How an undercover oil industry mercenary tricked pipeline opponents into believing he was one of them.

The world’s fastest growing economy isn’t China; it’s the “unheralded alternative economic universe of System D” aka the $10 trillion global black market.

The untold story behind the mysterious disappearance of Fan Bingbing, the world’s biggest movie star.

The former NBA player is forever linked to the murder of his girlfriend.

The untold story of Alek Minassian, a year after the deadliest mass murder in Toronto history

More than 250 people have died since 2011 taking pictures of themselves in dangerous locations.

A profile of Edna Buchanan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning crime reporter for the Miami Herald during its heyday.

The roots musician is inspired by the evolving legacy of the black string band.

An interview with F. Lee Bailey about his 60 years of celebrity trials.

What do you do when you hear that Mike Tyson is opening a weed resort in the middle of the California desert? You go investigate.

What does it take to save a 300-pound loggerhead with a horrible injury? Inside the yearlong journey of recovery.

Mexico is now importing lots of its baseball talent from America.

Politicians want to rein in the retail giant. But Jeff Bezos, the master of cutthroat capitalism, is ready to fight back.

Texans receiver DeAndre Hopkins says he owes his career to his mom. When you hear her remarkable story of survival, you’ll understand his devotion.

The first magazine profile of the actor in more than 20 years.

Eira Thomas’s company has used radical new methods to find some of the biggest uncut gems in history.

Medical examiners provide crucial insights into public health and safety. What happens when we don’t have enough of them?

Two well-liked Twitter employees accessed thousands of users’ private information and illegally passed it to the Saudi Royal Family, per the FBI.

A speech on the value of being alone with your thoughts, delivered to the plebe class at West Point.

Ramsey Orta filmed the killing of Eric Garner—and the police punished him for it.

A renowned scholar claimed that he discovered a first-century gospel fragment. Now he’s facing allegations of antiquities theft, cover-up, and fraud.

Open source materials suggest that, for now, the apocalyptic, anti-government politics of the “Boogaloo Bois” are not monolithically racist/neo-Nazi. As we have observed, some members rail against police shootings of African Americans, and praise black nationalist self defense groups.

But the materials also demonstrate that however irony-drenched it may appear to be, this is a movement actively preparing for armed confrontation with law enforcement, and anyone else who would restrict their expansive understanding of the right to bear arms. In a divided, destabilized post-coronavirus landscape, they could well contribute to widespread violence in the streets of American cities.