Thousands of Korean children were sent abroad beginning in the 1950s. Now, many of them are returning to their country of origin.

The implosion of the daily fantasy industry is a bro-classic tale of hubris, recklessness, political naïveté and a kill-or-be-killed culture.

What happens when a great deal of cocaine suddenly washes up on the shores of a very small island.

On peaches.

Pakistan has received global praise for the design and maintenance of a vast system that holds the information of 98% of the country’s population. For some, however, it is making normal life impossible.

Behind a financial fraud lay a secret plan to create a “mothership for con artists worldwide”:

Gamboa's tale involves secret ore deposits, hidden stocks of Soviet nuclear armaments, the Queen Mary ocean liner, portions of Antarctica, a new version of the Bible, allegations of fake deaths and miraculous resurrections, and a collection of some of the most colorful aliases ever to grace America's criminal and civil case dockets. (According to court documents, Korem also answers to the names Tzemach Ben David Netzer Korem and Branch Vinedresser.)

The story of Asa Earl Carter, aka Forrest Carter, the best-selling author of The Education of Little Tree, an autobiographical novel about “communion with nature and love of one’s fellow man.” He was also a Klansman, penning the famous George Wallace line, “Segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever!”

A longtime Harper’s contributor considers America as he dies: “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.”

He was the best alpinist of his generation, a quiet, unassuming Canadian known for bold ascents of some of the world’s most iconic peaks. Four months ago, at the age of 25, he traveled to Alaska to join climber Ryan Johnson for a first ascent outside Juneau. They never came back.

A post-acquisition profile of Tumblr’s David Karp.

Jamie Leigh Jones’s story of gang-rape in Iraq changed the law to help victims, even though she might not have been one herself.

A jailhouse interview with Vladimir Putin’s rival at the very end of his decade behind bars.

How fight coach Greg Jackson, once dubbed “the Philosopher King of MMA,” does his job.

Phil Locke made millions charging working people 400% interest. Then he had a change of heart.

Ardelia Ali was raped in 1995. Twenty years later, her attacker was convicted.

Pvt. Felix Hall died in the only known murder of its kind on a U.S. military base.

It was a genius piece of technology. But that didn’t mean it was a business.

We devote vast resources to intensive, one-off procedures, while starving the kind of steady, intimate care that often helps people more.

A day at the mall with the cast of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.

On Cecilia Chang, the St. John’s fundraiser who committed suicide after being convicted of fraud, and the university administrators who benefited from her crime.

Naffe, a young Republican, entered the belly of the political beast – and was nearly eaten.

A profile of Frank Lucas, whose life was the basis for the film American Gangster, decades after his days as a kingpin.

Amidst the football-obsessed culture of small-town Christian colleges in Kansas, a player is killed at a party.

“No one works better out of anguish at all; that’s an incredible literary conceit.”