How skateboard legend Mark “Gator” Anthony was born again, first as a street preacher, and then as a rapist and murderer.

A study of the Mississippi River, its history, and efforts by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to hold it in place.

A profile of driver A.J. Foyt on the eve of what was supposed to be his final Indy 500.

Alumni report in secret on Delphian, the mysterious boarding school that Scientology built in the mountains of Oregon.

The N.S.A. claims it needs access to all our phone records. But is that the best way to catch a terrorist?

Inside the lives of Sri Lanka’s Tamils as they emerge from a multi-decade war that defined and nearly destroyed them.

An investigation into the myth of actress Frances Farmer’s lobotomy.

A profile of life in Owsley County, one of the poorest in the country.

The story of the Norway massacre, as told by the survivors.

Inside the bleak world of Joe Francis, the man behind the “Girls Gone Wild” franchise.

How PCC, once an inmate soccer team and now Brazil’s most notorious prison gang, coordinated seven days of riots throughout São Paulo using mobile phones.

The author investigates the massive wildlife die-off in the Salton Sea by rafting from its tributaries in Mexico.

Albert Talton started with some recycled newsprint and a cheap printer from Staples. By the end, he’d put more than $7 million into circulation.

A trip to the Russian baths helps author start to see the good in his terrible eyesight.

A profile of Yao Ming published during his second season in the NBA.

With The BFG, the filmmaker tackles childhood’s possibilities and terrors once again.

A day in the life of Mount Eerie’s Phil Elverum, in the wake of the sudden death of his wife when their daughter was four months old.

“Richard Spencer is a troll and an icon for white supremacists. He was also my high-school classmate.”

Seven months ago, an underdog Brazilian soccer team boarded a plane to play the game of their lives. They never made it.

“Seeing a partial eclipse bears the same relation to seeing a total eclipse as kissing a man does to marrying him.”

The haunted past of Amy Bishop, a University of Alabama neurobiologist who shot six colleagues during a staff meeting.

Forgetting a child in the backseat of a car is a horrifying mistake. But is it a crime?