The struggles of Xavier University, a tiny, historically-black school in New Orleans, to train students for medical school.

Who was Ashraf Marwan working for when he fell to his death from the balcony of a London flat?

A sociologist’s controversial first book and the debate over who gets to speak for whom.

The final days of the last Navy SEAL to die in Afghanistan.

Government agencies have been trying to protect children for nearly 200 years. They are still failing.

Winona Ryder has always been trapped in her own anticipatory nostalgia, and the public has always wanted to keep her there.

How Dennis from Head of the Class grew up to be the Aaron Sorkin of tween television.

The birth of the Beastie Boys—an oral history on the 25th anniversary of Licensed to Ill.

As “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” comes to an end, a conversation with gay servicemen past and present.

On the dying city of Port Arthur, Texas, and one man’s fight to save it.

What it means to become a superpower while three quarters of the population lives on less than fifty cents per day—four scenes from India in transition.

“The Anonymous mystique had allowed a group of incompetents to hijack, then discredit, an important grassroots movement in the eyes of national media.”

A group of journalists and researchers wade into ugly corners of the Internet to expose racists, creeps, and hypocrites. Have they gone too far?

How Sinclair Broadcast Group bent the rules, bought politicians, and faked the news to become one of the largest independent owners of television stations in America.

The man behind the craze for fermented alcoholic tea likes to tell the story of his own conception.

An eyewitness tells us what it was like to be there.

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

The former Beastie Boy, 48, tries to figure out what’s next.

How Ross Ulbricht went from idealistic used-book seller to murderous drug kingpin.

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.

A controversial effort divides students by race in order to combat racism.

Investigating the death of Rikers Island women’s jail inmate Jackie Caquias, and other abuses of women prisoners’ access to medical care.

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

An industry responds to the recession by rebranding the carrot as anything but vegetable.