She was Becky Sue Turner, then Lori Erica Ruff. Now she’s Jane Doe.

A startup’s plan to launch a fleet of cheap, small, ultra-efficient imaging satellites and revolutionize data collection.

How a financial advisor for NHL players may have orchestrated a massive fraud.

How cable sports channels extort hundreds of dollars per year out of every cable subscriber for programming that less than 10% regularly watch.

Barack Obama wanted to endorse gay marriage on his own timetable. Joe Biden had other plans.

On Singapore’s attempt to create a more harmonious society using mass surveillance and data analysis.

How Cassandro, who wrestles in drag, became a star Mexican luchadore.

An investigation into who knew what, and when.

How a doctor and an S.A.C. trader got entangled in a financial scandal.

Trevell Coleman wasn’t sure whether he’d killed a man. But after 17 years, he needed to find out.

Baseball legend Lenny Dykstra’s on-field brilliance and private-life disasters, from drunk driving to failed investment and publishing ventures.

A Hells Angel informant’s path from destruction to redemption and back, and a family’s trouble with witness protection.

After 85 years, antibiotics are growing impotent. So what will medicine, agriculture and everyday life look like if we lose these drugs entirely?

Adventures in acedia, from Aquinas to Bartleby.

Skyrocketing prices for yarchagumba, a rare fungus prized as an aphrodisiac, has led to Nepali villagers to turf wars—and possibly murder.

How a major American company helped bring Charles Taylor to power in Liberia.

Creating, and then attempting to dismantle, a fake persona based on a man who died in 1984.

Stefan Simchowitz has supported dozens of emerging young artists. Why do so many people hate him?

Inside Roger Goodell’s troubling (or wildly successful, depending on who you ask) tenure as NFL commissioner.

A visit with Ai Weiwei, Laura Poitras, and Jacob Appelbaum, three people who live in justifiable paranoia of government surveillance.

After decades of failed revitalization strategies, a town of 10,000 tries another.

Mary Ellen Johnson, a 48-year-old author, befriends a teenager convicted of murdering his parents.

Romney’s former Bain partner makes a case for inequality.

Police and scientists investigate an outbreak.