On water scarcity in Mexico City.

Before you ever feel it.

Hunting child predators with actress Marisol Nichols.

How Wall Street enabled a global financial scandal.

A trip to Carbohydrate Camelot.

Six months of life and death in America.

A profile of Carrie Lam, Hong Kong’s chief executive.

On Toyin Salau’s disappearance and death.

A trip to Batumi, Georgia.

Two ordinary Americans, inspired by right-wing extremism, plan to kidnap a cop.

White sharks are hunting along Cape Cod’s beaches. What will it take to keep people safe?

How America is trying to fight terrorism in Africa without doing any of the actual fighting.

A history of how Tuareg separatists, jihadists seeking a “desert caliphate,” cigarette smugglers, and narcotraffickers have turned Northern Mali into “the globe’s most significant terrorist threat.”

On the writers, poets and beats in a reclusive California town, where residents repeatedly tear down highway signs indicating its location.

It started as a bluebird New Year’s Day in Mount Rainier National Park. But when a gunman murdered a ranger and then fled back into the park’s frozen backcountry, every climber, skier, and camper became a suspect—and a potential victim.

On Dylan Yount, a man who jumped from a San Francisco building, and the people who watched, recorded and, in some cases, encouraged his suicide.

How “Count” Victor Lustig, one of America’s great con men, worked his scams.

Two years ago, the fitness guru abruptly disappeared from public life. His friends worry that he’s being held against his will inside his Hollywood Hills mansion, or something even worse.

Microprocessors cost billions to develop. They take three times longer to build than an airplane, in an environment 1,000 times more sterile than a hospital. Throughout the entire process, nobody ever touches them.

What started as a DVD-mailing service has changed the way we watch TV. Now Netflix has to do it again. (And again. And again.)

How a minimally trained, isolated man named Srinivasa Ramanujan figured out some of mathematics’ deepest theoretical problems using little more than an out-of-date elementary school textbook.

A former Saint and Super Bowl champion, Will Smith, was shot and killed by another player named Cardell Hayes. Their fatal collision highlights the fine line between triumph and tragedy in football and life in New Orleans.

One frosty October morning in 1991, a newborn baby boy is found inside a plastic bag in an Oslo graveyard. This is his story, in nine parts.

The house at 114 Lake Avenue in Bristol, CT that kept calling Aaron Hernandez, a NFL star by 20, back to “a volatile underworld of guns, drugs, and violence.”

“Professional boxing is the only major American sport whose primary, and often murderous, energies are not coyly deflected by such artifacts as balls and pucks.”