Albuquerque has one of the highest rates in the country of fatal shootings by police, and no officer has been indicted.

The physical rigors of pregnancy tangle with the personal ambitions of a war photojournalist, without limiting her in the least.

Reconstructing the investigation into Rafik Hariri’s assassination, for which five men stand trial in absentia.

Robert Marbut is in the business of helping cities criminalize homelessness.

An innocent man was executed – in 1761. Voltaire got on the case.

The sugar beet harvest in North Dakota draws a modern version of the American hobo.

A portrait of a comedian in the moment just before he becomes huge.

The Cleveland police are still adamant that they did nothing wrong in the killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice.

Alberto Salazar is one of the most celebrated running coaches in the world. Is he also a cheater?

On the death of a high school basketball star in New York City.

A former colleague visits the ‘Fire Fiend’ in prison.

How a family man dentist got involved in an underage prostitution ring.

On fashion, gender, a finding oneself in a pair of drop-crotch pants.

Inside the investigation that broke the biggest case of insider trading in history.

The search for a missing ultramarathoner in New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness, and the life that lead him there.

The Onion’s Keith Phipps retraces the route Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda followed in Easy Rider.

As of this year, more women than men are in the U.S. workforce. More women are managers and more women are earning college degrees. Here’s why.

Nitrous balloon vendors clash in the parking lots of jam band festival across the Northeast.

How Christopher Hitchens, a former socialist, became one of the most vigorous defenders of the war in Iraq.

Three Dallas prostitutes were found dead in as many months. Charles Albright might be the last person you’d suspect–unless you knew about his lifelong obsession.

The Great Recession’s impact on the legalized prostitution industry in Nevada: more hookers, fewer johns.

During his career, Josh Luchs gave college athletes thousands in cash, meals, and trips. Now he’s retiring and coming clean.

Scenario-based forecasts on the future of America, in the style of the C.I.A’s National Intelligence Estimate.

A (graphically) detailed account of a bear’s attack on a father and daughter hiking in Glacier National Park.