How prison changed the mother and militant who was sentenced to 75 years for her role in a deadly 1981 Brinks truck heist.

As mainstream news loses its relevance, Allred becomes only more relevant to mainstream news. She’s provided thousands of hours of titillating material that has helped keep cable networks from grinding to a halt. The players come and go. Past clients like Amber Frey and Tiger Woods Mistress No. 1 Rachel Uchitel slip back into obscurity. Scott Peterson rots disregarded on death row in San Quentin, and Woods’s sexual escapades no longer mesmerize. But Allred retains her significance. There are always new victims to premiere and promote, new serial sexual harassers or psychopaths to square off against. In this spectacle of scandal, grisly murder, and celebrity wrongdoing, Allred has made herself the stage manager, the content provider, the indispensable performer.

Exploring the relationship between authors and their parents.

It mattered to her that she could have, or might have, been a writer, and perhaps it mattered to me more than I fully understood. She watched my books appear with considerable interest, and wrote me an oddly formal letter about the style of each one, but she was, I knew, also uneasy about my novels. She found them too slow and sad and oddly personal. She was careful not to say too much about this, except once when she felt that I had described her and things which had happened to her too obviously and too openly. That time she said that she might indeed soon write her own book. She made a book sound like a weapon.

Two Houston performance artists faux-marry an oak. Controversy ensues about the live installation’s relationship to the gay marriage debate.

Twenty five years after a shooting left him “100% disabled,” a Baltimore police officer continues to fight for his life.

A profile of former Liberian president Charles Taylor, who was sentenced to 50 years today after being convicted of committing crimes against humanity.

Three men are exonerated, almost 40 years after a 12-year-old’s coerced testimony led to their murder convictions.

The short-lived literary career of Breece DʼJ Pancake and his roadmap to a world of oppressive poverty.

Immune systems don’t make for clean narratives, even as we expect them to keep us pure.

We are all going to die. So what does it look like?

A Georgia chicken farmer hoped to find financial independence in ethical foie gras. Things got weird.

Key and Peele try to make comedic sense of America’s confusions about race. Their secret? “Really, there’s no actual strategy.”

It’s quite possible to make six figures standing around on a movie set – if you have a union card.

The politics behind the anti-trend trend known as “Normcore” turn out to be as conservative as ever.

What happened to one of the most hated basketball players in NCAA history after playing a single season at Georgetown.

An athlete without arms or legs tries to get a spot on a the national wheelchair rugby team.

He was one of Israel’s greatest spies. Then he brought his own country to the brink of war.

Doug Dodd was a drug kingpin in high school. And now, like the narrator of a Scorcese film, he wants to tell his own story.

On Juliana Buhring, a former cult member who became the first woman to bike around the world.

Before embarking on dangerous rock climbs, Matt Samet would use whiskey to wash down powerful prescription tranquilizers. A first-person account of extreme addiction.

For the members of UCLA’s undocumented immigrant club, going to school means fighting for an education most students take for granted.

The battle to contain the Asian tiger mosquito–one suburban, above-ground pool at a time.

Dozens of young adults in rural Wales are hanging themselves, feeding an epidemic of copycat suicides that experts are have been unable to contain.

Kids are identifying as gay at younger ages, sometimes only 10 or 11. Their communities and parents are scrambling to adapt.

Kevin Hart wanted a scholarship to play Division I college football. It didn’t come. So he made one up–and called a press conference.