“If you think cam girls—those flirty naked characters that plague porn site pop-up ads—are raking in easy money, you’re right. If you think cam girls are bleakly stripping online out of desperation, you’re also right.”

How a loathsome band makes gobs of money.

Scientology’s stronghold on Tom Cruise’s dating life.

A master troll on trial in New Jersey.

As a 15-year runaway hitchhiker, the writer was nearly killed by a trucker. Twenty seven years later, she investigates whether her attacker was truck stop serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades, who often kept his victims chained in the back of his truck for weeks before killing and dumping them.

Sex in the Olympic Village.

Hanging out with Barack Obama.

The strangest and most volatile American drug craze since crack.

How child molesters get away with it.

The decades-long saga of Michael Morton, who was wrongfully convicted of killing his wife.

The investigation that brought down K2 Productions.

Basketball’s iconoclast is a broke recluse at 37.

The hellacious childhood of two billionaires-to-be.

The story behind the spectacle.

He was a villain. She was a victim. It wasn’t that simple.

The trial of a 10-year-old who murdered his neo-Nazi father.

Escaping with Kink.com’s Princess Donna Dolore.

Parsing the lives of middle-class twentysomethings.

Young love and an apartment filled with heavy weaponry.

Searching for Dave Chappelle ten years after he left his show.

“If you think cam girls—those flirty naked characters that plague porn site pop-up ads—are raking in easy money, you’re right. If you think cam girls are bleakly stripping online out of desperation, you’re also right.”

Eight women remember their first time.

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

Iran’s sex-obsessed old guard reacts to a state where “the majority of the population is young.… Young people by nature are horny. Because they are horny, they like to watch satellite channels where there are films or programs they can jerk off to.… We have to do something about satellite television to keep society free from this horny jerk-off situation.”

Sex in the Olympic Village.

Writing in his mid-30s—and, it’s worth noting, in 1969—the scientist breaks down the many pleasures he’s found in getting high.

A journey inside California’s medical marijuana industry, with a guide named Captain Blue.

A trip to the Cannabis Cup serves as a backdrop for an explanation of how the War on Drugs revolutionized the way marijuana is grown in America.

The story of how a 19-year-old kid in Idaho went from delivering pizza to leading a operation responsible for smuggling at least seven tons of marijuana across the Canadian border.

On marijuana’s impact on national politics, the economy, and the prison system.

Looking for a glimpse of America’s possibly legalized future, a reporter spends a week working at an Amsterdam coffee shop (and confronts his fear of weed, kind of).

A journey to Disney World with kids and weed.

How a group of hippie surfers and a former Spanish teacher built the largest weed-smuggling empire on the West Coast.