He outsold Elvis, signed one of the first pay-for-play contracts and befriended Martin Luther King Jr. A profile of Harry Belafonte.

The rise of the Night Wolves, a Kremlin-backed biker gang, and what it says about the Russian political condition.

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

On the assassination of a half-Palestinian, half-Jewish cultural revolutionary.

Sixty years later, a dishonorably discharged World War I veteran makes one final appeal. The 1980 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.

What the CIA really knew about Robert Levinson, a retired FBI agent who disappeared in 2007.

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

The case of a teenager who didn’t kill his classmates—but talked about it.

Did Remington Chase and Stefan Martirosian “orchestrate” a contract killing in Moscow?

Embedded with a U.S. bomb squad in Baghdad.

The story that inspired The Hurt Locker.

A profile of 21-year-old Dan Cates, who made $5.5 million playing 145,215 hands in 2010.

The inner workings of a high school basketball team stacked with international talent.

The emergence of a radio phenomenon popular amongst young demographic believed lost to interactive distractions.

An investigation into rising crime rates in small American cities. Is a lauded antipoverty program to blame?

A profile of Larry Garrison, the man who “gets paid to bring tabloid stories to TV news programs.”

A profile of Maine’s two U.S. senators, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins.

The story of a high school quarterback’s descent into madness, and its tragic end.

A letter to his unborn son about the wonders of being an only child.

The author gets a security guard job at this aging textile factory. Part of the City by City project.

A profile of filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar during the 2004 Cannes International Film Festival.

A profile of 17-year-old Teresa Scanlan, the newly crowned Miss America.

For years, homosexuals have, for the most part, been politically apathetic. Rarely did a candidate stir their enthusiasm; when homosexuals did vote, many of the more affluent ones tended to go Republican. But now the gay and lesbian community appears to be united for the first time in a Presidential race behind a single candidate -- Bill Clinton. And the money is pouring into the Clinton campaign -- $2 million so far from identifiably gay sources, according to Democratic Party estimates. "The gay community is the new Jewish community," says Rahm Emanuel, the Clinton campaign's national finance director. "It's highly politicized, with fundamental health and civil rights concerns. And it contributes money. All that makes for a potent political force, indeed."

A look inside Amazon’s Pennsylvania distribution warehouse, where workers endure 110 degree temperatures and extreme productivity quotas.

On H.H. Holmes “an old hand at corpse manipulation and insurance fraud,” who built a house of death in 1890s Chicago.