Since she first started working in the hospitality industry two decades ago, Vida Afram has cleaned nearly 60,000 hotel rooms.

How online sales of highly regulated, super-toxic rodenticides exploit gaps in the law and imperil wildlife.

On a basketball coach starting over at the lowest levels of the game after his ascendant NCAA career ended in a hazy tabloid scene at a Cleveland crackhouse.

The story of Max Factor, a Polish immigrant who revoltuionized Hollywood cosmetics starting in the 1920s, and his “Beauty Calibrator” machine.

A final visit with late boxer Teófilo Stevenson, who could have fought or even been Muhammad Ali had he not stayed in Cuba.

Untangling the aftermath of a United States drone strike in Yemen.

A profile of the highest-paid female executive in America, who was born male.

The profile of a 34-year-old woman named Charity Johnson who tricked people all over the country into believing she was still in high school.

A judge on the history and injustice of the plea bargain in America.

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

How one woman is monitoring the jihadi network from a home office in Montana.

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

The disappearance of the mysterious “Pakistani asset” that helped the CIA zero in on Bin Laden.

It was a 3-mile footrace. Thousands were in attendance. So how did Michael LeMaitre disappear?

“The first time I was ever published in a book was 1997. It was because I found Roger Ebert’s email and asked him a question.”

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

The producer of Big Star’s Third and piano player on ‘Wild Horses’ recounts a life of music in Memphis.

The writer reconnects with an old acquaintance who ten years earlier committed one of the most notorious crimes in New York history.

What seems like a slam-dunk case against a mass murderer exposes widespread prosecutorial misconduct in Orange County.

After a year of tumult and scandal at Tinder, ousted founder Sean Rad is back in charge. Now can he — and his company — grow up?

Investigating an astrophysicist’s sudden death at an isolated resesarch base in Antarctica.