Inside the collapse of TelexFree, an alleged $1 billion pyramid scheme that duped investors worldwide.

A profile of reporter Jason Leopold, who has reinvented himself after journalistic scandal by becoming what he calls a “FOIA terrorist.”

A profile of anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes, who has spent her career uncovering a hidden global market in human flesh.

On the intrigue surrounding Dr. Zhivago’s publication.

How the self-proclaimed “inventor of all things streaming” went from dot-com millionaire to crime ring accomplice.

What it’s like to be Enzyte’s “Smiling Bob,” and other tales of acting as a product’s public face.

A community says its children are being targeted by a group of pedophiles. But did widespread sexual abuse actually take place?

In 1945, a fire tore through the home of George and Jennie Sodder. Four children escaped; five vanished.

On the actors who unwittingly starred in The Innocence of Muslims.

An internet pioneer loses hope in the promise of web culture.

A Liberian road trip with the creator of MTV, Ralph Reed and a reformed cannibal named General Butt Naked.

A profile of former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford, who is running for office four years after his affair with an Argentine journalist became national news.

The impact of the oil and gas booms taking place all over the world, and our future on fossil fuels.

A generation that has seen inestimable violence comes of age in Juarez.

Conspiracy theories, utopian fantasies, and cult involvement surrounding the international standard of musical tuning.

A profile of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

The growth of an immersive universe that is “part game and part soap opera and part shadow economy.”

An 8th-generation Louisvillian on the Kentucky Derby, bourbon and the history of his hometown.

In a Turkish hotel, veterans of the Libyan Revolution meet with their fractured Syrian counterparts to transfer know-how and heavy weaponry.

Twenty-six years after he was wrongfully imprisoned for the murder of his wife, Michael Morton sees the real killer brought to justice in a Texas courthouse.

On Ephemerisle, a “floating festival of radical self-reliance,” and other attempts at creating an island utopia.

The dangerous work of harvesting your food.

A profile of lawyer Jacques Vergès, who died yesterday after decades spent defending war criminals, terrorists and dictators.

A profile of Elizabeth Gilbert, whose bestselling memoir may have sunk her literary career.