Dan Akroyd, John Belushi, cocaine, and the making of The Blues Brothers.

After a 19-year-old is convicted of murdering his girlfriend, her family fights to free him from prison.

The U.S. Department of Justice investigates the Blackwater founder’s new firm.

On the relationship between conservation, British farmers, and a possible Brexit.

A bus tour through Israel with a conservative radio host and 450 of his biggest fans.

A conversation about race, Hollywood, and what it’s like to be able to conjure weed out of thin air.

A two-part series on how and why Arianna Huffington lost control of The Huffington Post.

How Yvon Chouinard turned his eco-conscious, anti-corporate ideals into the credo of a successful clothing company.

On the journey of 24-year-old Jose Fernandez, the Cuban defector turned Major League all-star, who died Sunday.

A long stroll through a Staten Island cemetery leads to the story of the 19th-century free-black oystermen who settled Sandy Ground.

The shrinking of the country’s ice sheet is triggering feedback loops that accelerate the global crisis.

Rae Sremmurd, who held the #1 spot for the last 3 weeks for their song Black Beatles, on the precipice of fame.

A palliative-care doctor and triple amputee has built a new kind of hospice in San Francisco.

A dispatch from the Philippine capital, where “no one will be safe until many, many more have died.”

One story of coming to America from the Soviet Union.

The son of an American anthropologist returns to the Amazon to reunite with his mother, an indigenous tribeswoman.

How a series of lies and an incompetent lawyer led to a Florida woman’s wrongful conviction.

Forty years after the dirty wars and Pinochet’s coup, photographer David Burnett journeys back to Chile to visit the subject of his most famous image.

What a secret audio tape revealed about the murder of mycologist and magic mushroom pioneer Steven Pollock.

Confessions of a serial husband.

An animal's corpse disrupts a humdrum workday in this early story by Eleanor Catton, the winner of this year's Man Booker Prize.

A profile of Avishek Sengupta, who drowned at the Walk the Plank obstacle during an endurance race last year.

Did the Obama Administration ignore evidence that someone other than Assad could be behind the sarin attacks?

Asphyxiation, heavy machinery accidents and heat stroke–the dangers of America’s temporary workforce.

What happened when 21-year-old Taiwan Smart became the target of both police and a reality TV show.