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.

A gay freshman at Rutgers, a spying roommate, and the trial that followed.

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

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How a Mexican drug cartel makes its billions.

The false promise and double standard of integration in the Obama era.

The rise and fall of the “most far-flung, most organized, and most brazen example of homosexual extortion in the nation’s history.”

“When I died, I died of many things: the failing systems; the weakening of age; the exhaustion of the long war against dying. Finally, I succumbed to the lack of ethics in a California hospital, killed by filth and neglect.”

The insanity of U.S. gun law.

“Reg Smythe was the greatest British newspaper strip cartoonist of the 20th Century—and second only to Peanuts’ Charles Schulz on a global scale. So why don’t we treat him that way?”

How the U.S. lost out on iPhone work.

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.

“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.

Susannah Breslin ambitiously self-publishes a piece on the rise and advancing crash of the pornography industry in a certain suburb of Los Angeles.

A former sex worker interviews a longtime John on how it feels to pay.

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

A 3-part investigation of human trafficking and the international sex trade, with stops in Costa Rica, Moldova, and the Philippines.

Cycles of boom and bust in the drilling town of Williston, N.D., as seen from the perspective of an itinerant dancer filling one of three slots at the only strip club in town, Whispers.

The rise and fall of a boom-era escort agency in New York City.

The lives of women who make their living on the web.