Inside the puppet trial of the decade.

Sex and status disclosure in the age of Grindr and undetectable HIV-levels.

In the 1970s, Chile was on the verge of developing sophisticated technology to monitor its economy. Then America intervened.

Working within Andalusia’s impoverished farming communities, a ragtag pair of longtime union leaders have been leading raids on local supermarkets.

An essay on Jimmy Savile, British television and child sexual abuse.

On William Cockford and his 1800s gambling hall in London, where much of the British aristocracy lost its fortune.

After being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a 30-year-old woman loses most of her memory.

Thousands of new warehouse jobs were supposed to help lift a struggling British economy. Instead, employees started equating the work with “being in a slave camp.”

The story of twelve men trapped in a West Virginia mine, as remembered by the lone survivor.

A profile of former Duke basketball star Jay Williams a decade after the motorcycle crash that ended his career.

The King of Rwanda is 76 years old, 7 feet 2 inches tall, and lives on public assistance in a small apartment in Virginia.

A profile of the D.O.C., the rapper’s rapper, who ghostwrote for Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg.

Groupon disasters, the behaviors of the consumer swarm, and how the “1% and the 90% [are] collaborating to prey on the 9% in the middle.”

The private life of a disgraced former congressman.

A collection of war stories told by women who have seen combat while serving in the U.S. military.

In Cyprus with those who lost big by simply depositing their savings with Laiki.

How General Keith Alexander, director of the NSA, became the most powerful intelligence officer in U.S. history.

A family turns to murder to save one of their own.

The story of 1968’s Golden Globe, a race to see who could become the first sailor to circumnavigate the world solo without stopping.

The rise and fall and rise of Hill flack Kurt Bardella, and what it says about D.C. culture.

A profile of Ken Feinberg, lawyer who specializes in determining compensation after tragedies and disasters.

On the lesbian separatists of the 1970s, who “created a shadow society devoted to living in an alternate, penisless reality.”

A profile of a virtual kingpin.