A portrait of three high school kids in Arizona forced to live on their own after SB 1070.

Alarmingly sophisticated imitations of American currency have turned up all over the world and the false-paper trail leads to North Korea.

On “If You Are the One”, the smash hit Chinese dating show that raised the ire of censors.

A Houston man allegedly tries to hire several hit men to kill his wife. Each fails miserably. It becomes the talk of the town.

Why “Father of Botox” Arnold Klein, whose famous clients once included Michael Jackson and Elizabeth Taylor, thinks everyone’s out to get him.

An essay on “how we ignore the long-term effects of violence on children, adults and our communities.”

A Supreme Court Justice revisits a rape trial from the 1950s.

A profile of the singer as he returns to the stage for the first time in a dozen years.

The anatomy of a sex abuse scandal at a Christian school in Oklahoma.

On the surprising radicalism of library music – “music that has been composed and recorded for commercial purposes.”

The murderous tale of Washington D.C. fabulist Albrecht Muth and his late wife Viola Drath.

“Calça de veludo ou bunda de fora.” Why Neymar, one of the world’s best talents hasn’t taken the money and run.

A profile of Eugene Kaspersky, KGB-trained online security mogul.

On the legal history of LSD in America and a researcher who never gave up on the drug’s promise.

The story of Brownie Wise, the woman who made Tupperware a household name.

Ripping out the guts of an “utterly preposterous document”: the Starr Report on the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

Key and Peele try to make comedic sense of America’s confusions about race. Their secret? “Really, there’s no actual strategy.”

A friendship born of mutual interest in birding stretches across the Berlin Wall.

“When constant revisionism and re-invention is under way, what does it profit a biographer to drag the weary ‘facts’ before us?”

The story of a young man, a lake with some fish, a compound bow and a very bad idea.

“I laugh off 90 percent of the stuff I’m sent,” Wu says. “But it’s the 10 percent.”

He built it as a “portal into a world of quiet.”

The “zone of sacrifice” that is Oxnard, California, where low-income workers are paying the price for pesticide use and chemical dumping.

After years of sexual abuse by a neighbor, a teenager takes matters into his own hands.

One man describes his family’s tradition of delivering rhyming couplets at celebrations.