Exploring the crime-ridden depths of the internet with Opsec, a former professional hacker.

The business of sound.

The story of streetcar 393, which plunged into Fort Point Channel via an open drawbridge in 1916. Forty-six people were killed.

An annual re-enactment drags America’s history of racist violence into the light.

An investigation into the abuse and neglect of adults with disabilities in Illinois.

Mary Kuanen escaped the violence of Sudan only to live through her husband’s murder in suburban Denver. This is her life today.

An investigation into America’s largest chain of psychiatric hospitals, where patients are held against their will to maximize profits.

ProDoula wants to revolutionize the touchy-feely doula profession — and make millions of dollars along the way.

Writing a “stunt memoir” in the waterpark capital of the world.

Joe Arridy had an IQ of 46. In 1939, he was executed for a crime he neither understood nor committed.

The tragi-comic career of a nobody comedian from the 1940s who ditched his wife, child, and eventually his own name.

The rise and (potential) fall of the electronics superstore.

Efraim Zuroff does not want to retire.

A profile of Sir Dr. NakaMats, who claims to have invented over 3,000 things, including the floppy disk and karaoke machine.

How the United States came to spend more on defense than all the other nations of the world combined.

Throughout their troubled lives, identical twins William and Chris Cormier shared a preternatural bond. Then the body of a Florida journalist ended up in their backyard.

A profile of the Navy Seal who killed Osama bin Laden and came home to a life in shambles.

How mergers between Catholic institutions and secular hospitals are changing the nature of health care.

How Adalia Rose, a six-year-old with an early-aging disorder called progeria, became both an Internet celebrity and the target of online vitriol.

On Julian Jaynes, a Princeton psychologist who told the story of how humans learned to think.

One year before his death, Mickey Mantle describes a life of drinking.

A son’s memory of the father he lost at 13, excerpted from The Magical Stranger.

Why the head of Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey hired a former CIA agent to ruin a freelance writer’s career.

A profile of Dennis Rodman today.

On the dangerous glut of visitors looking to conquer Mt. Everest, where there is sometimes a two-hour wait to climb the Hillary Step.