Mel and Norma Gabler of Longview, Texas, want to tell your children what to learn in school.

Seth Rogen, Amy Pascal, and the inside story of Sony’s hacking saga.

The controversial owner of the Dallas World Aquarium once nearly caused a riot over pygmy sloths.

A drag pageant pioneer dropped out of the public eye after the 1960s. What happened to her?

Truancy is punishable by fines, probation, and in some cases throwing parents in prison. Does any of that really keep kids in school?

Robert Marbut is in the business of helping cities criminalize homelessness.

The sugar beet harvest in North Dakota draws a modern version of the American hobo.

A portrait of a comedian in the moment just before he becomes huge.

In 1992, a magazine story introduced the world to the photographs of Sally Mann. Here, she responds to the firestorm that article produced.

Notes from a never-finished biography of the neurologist, humanist and writer.

The multimillionaire David Gundlach had trouble, all his life, reading social cues. For reasons no one quite understands, he left most of his fortune to Elkhart, Indiana.

Football-related brain damage made Rickie Harris fall from the heights of the NFL to serving a DUI sentence in his ex-wife’s basement.

The ramifications of a U.S. company’s tourism operation on former Maasai land.

Alberto Salazar is one of the most celebrated running coaches in the world. Is he also a cheater?

Prosecutors have spun creative theories to explain away scientific evidence when DNA tests haven’t fit their version of events.

On the recovery of snowboarder Kevin Pearce, who suffered a massive brain injury five days before the 2010 Olympics.

On stolen bicycles, “a solvent in America’s underground economy, a currency in the world of drug addicts and petty thieves.”

How investigators nabbed a key member of a group called “Lost Boy.”

On Astana, the grandiose new capital that Kazakhstan built on the site of a remote Tsarist fort, and its striving young inhabitants.

The story of Olympic boxing hopeful Quanitta Underwood, who was sexually abused by her father as a child.

After two people are found dead in Yellowstone National Park, a team of investigators tracks down the unlikely culprit: a grizzly bear.

On fashion, gender, a finding oneself in a pair of drop-crotch pants.

Inside the investigation that broke the biggest case of insider trading in history.

A year with Major Steve Beck as he takes on the most difficult duty of his career: casualty notification.

A married father of two tracks down his free-living doppelgänger, a musician who has avoided responsibility at every turn, to see who’s happier.