“The caller reminded me I had written about her killing three decades earlier.”

Inside the bizarre, secret meeting between Malcolm X and the Ku Klux Klan.

A husband’s stroke, the Australian bushfires, and a trip to the Great Barrier Reef.

The rush to find a conspiracy around the COVID-19 pandemic’s origins is driven by narrative, not evidence.

Inside Harun Yahya, which promotes a “sexed-up Disney version of Islam,” publishes a 800-page creationist atlas, runs a surreal TV station, and has films it members in orgies that often include high-ranking politicians.

How Gaby Hoffman, who had roles in Field of Dreams, Uncle Buck and Sleepless in Seattle, survived child stardom.

Soap operas, enrollment in multiple graduate programs at once, student films alongside Hollywood blockbusters. Is James Franco’s entire career a piece of performance art?

She has convinced her followers she is a pretty-in-pink naïf, an escort, an unhinged ex, an office drone, and, most recently, an expectant mother. None of it is real.

Mike Schyck and hundreds of other Ohio State University athletes suffered sexual abuse by Dr. Richard Strauss. Schyck and many others believe then-OSU assistant wrestling coach Jim Jordan—now a congressman from Ohio—knew about it.

Stranded in Yemen’s war zone, a decaying supertanker has more than a million barrels of oil aboard. If—or when—it explodes or sinks, thousands may die.

Norma Claypool earned notoriety for welcoming 15 “hard-to-adopt” children into her Baltimore home. Norma Claypool is also elderly and blind.

He was an 18 year old Marine bound for Iraq. She was a high school senior in West Virginia. They grew intimate over IM. His dad also started contacting her.  No one was who they claimed to be and it led to a murder.

After an 11-year-old Navajo girl was kidnapped, her family and friends sprang into action to find her. Why did it take so long for law enforcement to join them?

He was a Harvard Law professor who taught a class on judgment, which made him an unlikely target for an elaborate paternity scheme that nearly cost him his house and family.

For more than 40 years, a former Olympian allegedly has been molesting boys and young men. Now, they’re speaking out.

Border Patrol agent Matthew Bowen had been investigated for years before he used his 4,000-pound truck to assault a fleeing migrant.

My dad was a riddle to me, even more so after he disappeared. For a long time, who he was—and by extension who I was—seemed to be a puzzle I would never solve.

After a final film, Kevin Smith is going to retire to a life of podcasting and speaking tours. Or so he says.

How the Gingrich-era brain drain crippled the government and led to last year’s shutdown.

The salacious correspondence between the President and his mistress.

The activists, politicians, and social trends that led to 2012’s gay marriage victories.

The White House’s unprecedented crackdown on reporters.

The N.S.A. claims it needs access to all our phone records. But is that the best way to catch a terrorist?

Muhammad Ali and his followers were the greatest show on earth. Then the show ended, and life went on.

In the last decade, newsrooms across the country have adopted a “do more with less” strategy. It’s a kamikaze mission.