How a tiny island 5,000 miles from the U.S. mainland has produced so many NFL players.

What happened after the first openly gay player in Division I men’s basketball came out.

How Michael Lewis’s The Big Short became a Hollywood comedy.

Celebrated doctor Paolo Macchiarini was not all that he seemed.

How Facebook ‘likes’ landed Jelani Henry in Rikers.

Centralia, Pennsylvania, used to be a place with kids and schools and churches and houses. Then the ground caught on fire.

While accused killer Robert Durst was in Galveston, he made a few friends besides Morris Black.

What happend to Serafim Todorov after the 1996 Olympic featherweight semifinals.

How the National Enquirer became a 2010 Pulitzer contender without straying from its roots as a supermarket tabloid.

In 1920, Harvard University officials suspected that some students were gay. So they kicked them all out.

How virtual worlds like Ultima Online form economies and the sellers who make a living in digital goods.

How the Weinstein Brothers barked their way into an empire and then lost it.

What it means when an investigative reporter’s undercover work is framed as a personal journey.

Fifty years ago, rodeo man Bob Gimlin was a Bigfoot skeptic. Then he and a friend caught the creature on tape.

A conversation with 97-year-old Ben Ferencz.

More than a year ago, Nevada death row prisoner Scott Dozier gave up his legal appeals and asked to be executed. He’s still waiting.

What we know (and don’t), more than a year after American diplomats began to suffer strange, concussion-like symptoms in Cuba.

A dispatch from Cape Town, where surprising things can happen when it feels like the world is about to end.

Three days in Wyoming as the hip-hop firebrand tends to his scars.

Dick Cavett, the “last great intellectual talk-show host,” at 81.

Is Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions existential threat, a last resort, or both?

A report from Antartica, where the ecosystem is changing so fast scientists have no idea what will come next.

How a Sacramento Kings executive stole more than $13 million from the team—and almost got away with it.

Leo Rodgers is the irrepressible gravel-racing hero we all need now.

An interview with Alan Stillman, who in 1965 founded T.G.I. Friday’s, the first singles bar in America.