Fifty years ago, a police shooting set in motion a decades-long chase across the American West.

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.

A profile of singer-songwriter Will Oldham.

He has settled into character as an uncanny troubadour, singing a sort of transfigured country music, and he has become, in his own subterranean way, a canonical figure. Johnny Cash covered him, Björk has championed him (she invited him to appear on the soundtrack of “Drawing Restraint 9”), and Madonna, he suspects, has quoted him (her song “Let It Will Be” seems to borrow from his “O Let It Be,” though he says, “I’m fully prepared to accept that it’s a coincidence”).

Embedded with G4S, the world’s largest private army.

What happens when you target sex ed at boys?

The people at Apple, Spotify, and Google who decide what you listen to.

Growing crops in the city, without soil or natural light.

On living without memories.

On meterologic obsession, making weather, and very powerful storms.

The battle over what to do with New York City’s worst teachers.

An overachiever on what he did and didn’t learn at Princeton.

How Wall Street won.

On artists using their bodies to blur the line between human and machine.

The hedge funders who tried to give away a fortune anonymously.

Taking a taxi across the Saudi desert.

Catching up with Edward Snowden in Moscow.

On Wonder Woman’s feminist past.

The battle over a New York Picasso.

The thin moral line between collecting and stealing plants.

One rancher has a plan to save the endangered rhinoceros: domesticate them.