At 22, he single-handedly put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Then he was arrested by the FBI.

It was a fraught, utterly uncharted presidential transition—four years ago, from Obama to Trump. It was a prelude for so much that followed.

Sprawling ranches. Rare animals. Rich folks with guns. Welcome to the state’s booming business of stalking wildlife from around the globe.

With dozens of felines turning up dead around London, a pair of pet detectives set out to prove it was the work of a serial killer.

Elite schools breed entitlement, entrench inequality—and then pretend to be engines of social change.

How phone phreakers, many of them blind, opened up Ma Bell to unlimited free international calling using a technical manual and a toy organ.

On the brink of nuclear war, America’s bold response to the Soviet Union depended on an unknown spy agency operative.

More than a decade ago, a prominent academic was exposed for having faked her Cherokee ancestry. Why has her career continued to thrive?

As a diagnosis, it’s too vague to be helpful—but its rise tells us a lot about the way we work.

Climate change is bringing tourism and tension to Longyearbyen on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.

For decades, poppers have been the go-to sex drug for gay men. But where do they come from?

The ghosts of the uranium boom continue to haunt the land, water, and people.

How a landscape architect is enlisting nature to defend our coastal cities against climate change—and doing it on the cheap.

A last-gasp FEMA camp for wildfire survivors tests the government’s obligations to the displaced.

Hundreds of families have flocked to Colorado hoping medical marijuana will relieve their children’s epileptic seizures. This is the story of one family’s migration.

A new pro league is paying teenagers six figures to quit high school for basketball.

When Chicago’s Stevens Hotel opened in 1927, it was the biggest hotel in the world. By the time it was closed, it had bankrupted and caused the suicide of a member of the Stevens’ family (which included a seven-year-old future Justice John Paul Stevens), and changed the city forever.

On George Plimpton and the founders of The Paris Review.

There the man in the shorts—later identified as a Russian agent using the alias Richard Murphy of New Jersey—handed Michael Zottoli from Seattle two items: a flash memory card and a bag that held $150,000 in cash.

Within nine months they’d both be behind bars.

“A legend is growing in Nepal, where people say a meditating boy hasn’t eaten or drunk in seven months. He barely moves, just sits under a tree, still as a stone. It’s impossible, some say. Is it a miracle? A hoax? Let’s find out.”

A dispatch from Vermont, which is in the midst of what the governor calls a “full-blown heroin crisis.”

Two men, separated by more than 150 years, discover the folly of attempting Western-style capitalism in Micronesia.

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

Tom Cruise did not, in fact, jump up and down on Oprah’s couch.

The gangs of Brooklyn’s Brownsville, an area with the higest concentration of public housing in America.