The behind-closed-doors story.

What happened next for the Barden family.

One man’s quest to ride the strangest wave.

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.

Donald Cline must have thought no one would ever know. Then DNA testing came along.

Some risky but practical proposals to harness a superpower that has clearly lost control.

A well-known attorney helped land a $2 billion settlement for Gulf Coast seafood-industry workers. But who was he really representing?

Sean Murphy was an epic weed smoker, a devoted Tom Brady fan, and the best cat burglar that Lynn, Mass. had ever seen.

Groups protesting lockdown measures see the coronavirus pandemic as a pretext for tyranny—and as an opportunity for spreading rage.

The antics in postwar Nordic children’s books left propaganda and prudery behind. We need this madcap spirit more than ever.

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

The world’s greatest animator, Yuri Norstein, hasn’t released a new film in 37 years.

In Scott Kimball, the FBI thought it had found a high-value informant who could help solve big cases. What it got instead was lies, betrayal, and murder.

393 Powell Street was a peaceful home until residents started dying in brutal, mysterious ways.

Platforms like OnlyFans mean people with big followings online can earn money. Where does that leave the sex workers who were there first?

The health-care brand Hims wants to leverage young men’s anxiety over erections and hair loss into a multibillion-dollar empire.

A 21-year-old falls into a coma from which he’ll never emerge. His mother, desperate to grant his wish of becoming a father, has his sperm preserved. Two years later, after a fruitless search for other alternatives, she finds a willing doctor and tries one last option: carrying her son’s child herself.

A couple, well-known New York artists, decamp to L.A., where she intends to direct a movie about a rock star trying to leave a cult. Beck, a friend, signs on, then (possibly under pressure) drops out. Their behavior grows strange, and they rant of constant harassment by Scientologists. They return to New York—to die.

“As an American woman, I currently have less reproductive autonomy than I would have had the day I was born.”

The Harvard Law School legend has defended everyone from O.J. Simpson to Claus von Bülow. Now he’s facing his toughest case yet: his own.

How Barack Obama decided to green-light the operation that killed Osama bin Laden.

Ten years ago, Jack Whittaker won the largest lotto jackpot in history. Then he lost everything.

On Hezbollah leader Imad Mughniyeh, “the world’s most wanted terrorist not named Osama bin Laden,” whose death five years ago remains a mystery.

How Gary Gygax, a semi-employed shoe repairman, built and lost the Dungeons & Dragons empire.

A couple tries to give away their house in Flint, Michigan – but no one wants to live there anymore.