When cops kill civilians, their union is on hand to defend them. In many cases this has come at the expense of the truth.

“This is a story about how the future gets weird.”

San Francisco’s forgotten serial killer.

A history of scandal and civil war within the first family of the Unification Church.

On the rise of Indian Posse, the largest of Canada’s native gangs, and the fall of its leader.

The rise and fall of Mickey the Pope, the founder of a New York City marijuana delivery business.

Last February, John Jonchuck Jr. dropped his 5-year-old daughter off a bridge to her death. This is the story of what happened, and what didn’t, in the years before the murder made headlines.

A Czech Libertarian planted a flag on an unclaimed island in the Danube and gave it a name. Now, the Liberland government is struggling to build its a country without taxes, political correctness, or much in the way of women.

In the Swiss town of Meiringen, where an obsessed group of ‘pilgrims’ painstakingly recreate the death of Sherlock Holmes.

Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, on the eve of the release of The Social Network, believed to be a deeply unflattering portrait of him and the genesis of his company.

On the Birthright Israel program, which sends young American Jews on a tour of Israel free of charge, thanks to massive funding from both the Israeli government and philanthropists like the conservative casino magnate Sheldon Adelson.

A new era is dawning for Birthright. What began as an identity booster has become an ideology machine, pumping out not only Jewish baby-makers but defenders of Israel. Or that’s the hope.

Prenatal testing is changing who gets born and who doesn’t. This is just the beginning.

The mysteries of the least known Brontë sister.

A profile of the favorite to become the next UK prime minister.

Amid an historic glut the cheese market, a secretive, government-sponsored entity is putting the stuff anywhere it can.

The movies of Clint Eastwood.

The future of homo sapiens.

On the tortured afterlives of cast members.

A history of the war between Amazon and the book industry.

Investigating the origins of the ice cream truck sensation.

The empty promises and empty buildings of Foxconn’s Wisconsin debacle.

When a marketing team found themselves burning out, they shifted their business focus to doing something about it. But if capitalism caused this problem, can capitalism fix it?

Residents have lived near more than 100 massive petroleum storage tanks for decades, never really knowing if they’re breathing in dangerous chemicals. Now they’re fighting to find out.

A Little League season in Camden, New Jersey, where the murder rate is 17 times the national average.

INTERVIEWER: You once said the novel is dead. VIDAL: That was a joke.