Kim Goodsell had a pair of rare diseases. Doctors didn’t have the time to look for a link. So she taught herself genetics and found it herself.

The case of Brett Kimberlin.

A profile of the highest-paid female executive in America, who was born male.

The profile of a 34-year-old woman named Charity Johnson who tricked people all over the country into believing she was still in high school.

A profile of Prince as Diamonds and Pearls was released, based mostly off a brief phone call, all the access he’ll allow.

Is Vemma an energy drink, the new Amway or a pyramid scheme taking advantage of college kids? Maybe all three.

Inside the puppet trial of the decade.

Sex and status disclosure in the age of Grindr and undetectable HIV-levels.

In the 1970s, Chile was on the verge of developing sophisticated technology to monitor its economy. Then America intervened.

Working within Andalusia’s impoverished farming communities, a ragtag pair of longtime union leaders have been leading raids on local supermarkets.

An essay on Jimmy Savile, British television and child sexual abuse.

On William Cockford and his 1800s gambling hall in London, where much of the British aristocracy lost its fortune.

After being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a 30-year-old woman loses most of her memory.

Thousands of new warehouse jobs were supposed to help lift a struggling British economy. Instead, employees started equating the work with “being in a slave camp.”

The story of twelve men trapped in a West Virginia mine, as remembered by the lone survivor.

A profile of former Duke basketball star Jay Williams a decade after the motorcycle crash that ended his career.

The King of Rwanda is 76 years old, 7 feet 2 inches tall, and lives on public assistance in a small apartment in Virginia.

A profile of the D.O.C., the rapper’s rapper, who ghostwrote for Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg.

Groupon disasters, the behaviors of the consumer swarm, and how the “1% and the 90% [are] collaborating to prey on the 9% in the middle.”

The private life of a disgraced former congressman.

A collection of war stories told by women who have seen combat while serving in the U.S. military.

In Cyprus with those who lost big by simply depositing their savings with Laiki.

How General Keith Alexander, director of the NSA, became the most powerful intelligence officer in U.S. history.