For decades, Jeffrey Lendrum went to extreme lengths to snatch falcon eggs from their nests and sell them to the highest bidder. Then he got caught.

The inside story of an improbable team of divers, a near-impossible plan and the rescue of 12 boys from a Thai cave.

Despite what dementia has stolen from the cerebral creator of Deadwood, it has given his work a new sense of urgency.

Young immigrants who have been separated from their parents find a home at the Children’s Center.

In a supermax facility on US soil, inmates are force fed—and barred from sharing their stories.

Scientists in Brazil are trying to save the giant anteater from a growing threat: roads.

“What I learned about masculinity from my father, my father-in-law and my own transition.”

Oomba was a startup designed to make a lot of money from the games industry. Instead, everyone played each other.

Could shrunken heads from the Amazon hold the key to curing cancer? One man thought so—and spent a lifetime trying to prove it.

A U.S.-backed militia that kills children may be America’s exit strategy from its longest war.

The financial industry’s pursuit of profits from mobile-home communities is undermining one of the country’s largest sources of affordable housing.

Deana Lawson’s regal, loving, unburdened photographs imagine a world in which Black people are free from the distortions of history.

I thought I could change The Bachelor franchise from within. Until I realized I was their token.

Art often draws inspiration from life—but what happens when it’s your life?

Scandal, conspiracy, and cover-ups in the theft of the “Irish Crown Jewels” from Dublin Castle.

How the Ovitzs, a family of Jewish dwarves from Transylvania, survived Auschwitz.

The story of a high school basketball star’s sexual abuse conviction and its aftermath, told from all sides.

A father who brought his daughter to a ballgame and the fallout from a foul ball.

How one woman is monitoring the jihadi network from a home office in Montana.

Why almost everything we think we know about the iconic photo from Robinson’s first game is wrong.

Jurors from the Emmett Till trial revisit the case 50 years later.

A dispatch from Eloise Woods, a natural burial ground where bodies are consigned directly to the earth.

The author on Lolita, his work habits, and what he expected from his literary afterlife.

How John Snavely went from petty criminal to porn star to prison.

On the Kunsthal heist and the murky economics of making money from stolen paintings.