An exploited celebrity’s long journey home.

How a once-lauded psychiatrist became a prolific prescriber of painkillers in one of Virginia’s poorest and most isolated counties.

A Chicago housing project resident reports intruders breaking into her apartment through a medicine cabinet. Days later, she’s found dead.

A profile of CeaseFire, a group of “violence interrupters” attempting to prevent street shootings by treating them like an infectious disease.

On 20-somethings in America, or:

My screwed, coddled, self-absorbed, mocked, surprisingly resilient generation.

A high school student disappears, only to turn up more than 10 years later – posing as a high school student.

On then-agent, now-congressman Michael Grimm and what happens when an F.B.I. informant turns out to be a con man.

Pavel Galitsky, 100 years old, blogger and Skyper, survivor of 15 years in Stalin’s Siberian Kolyma mines.

Life at a roadside zoo with ligers, orangutans, and an elephant in Florida.

A Dutch traffic engineer showed that streets without signs are safer than those cluttered with arrows, painted lines, and lights.

Russian serial killer Alexander Pichushkin was so prolific that even he doesn’t know how many he killed.

On boot camps designed to break kids of their web addiction.

More and more Americans are trying to survive on less than $2 a day.

A dispatch from a Russian town under siege by hungry bears.

How a 27-year-old went from PR underling to gatekeeper.

Making bio-diesel is hard. Getting paid $100 million to not make it is surprisingly easy.

On a 650-mile trek, two adventurers faced danger and hardship—and saw how development could spoil an American icon.

A reporter learns to slice lox—and digs into a Los Angeles landmark’s millions in debt.

How life on four wheels became a brand.

Among other things, crows can recognize human faces—and train each other to avoid people they don’t like.

CO2 could soon reach levels that, it’s widely agreed, will lead to catastrophe.

Learning to live in Earth’s coldest conditions.

Brock Turner’s twisted legacy—and a Stanford professor’s relentless pursuit of justice.

We knew everything we needed to know, and nothing stood in our way. Nothing, that is, except ourselves.

A leftist journalist’s bruising crusade against establishment Democrats—and their Russia obsession.