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.

How a young Afghan trucking-company owner became spectacularly rich.

How Lalit Modi built a billion-dollar cricket empire—only to be exiled from his sport and homeland.

A longtime NGO worker on how big ideas end up hurting international aid.

Reconstructing the investigation into Rafik Hariri’s assassination, for which five men stand trial in absentia.

The former Beastie Boy, 48, tries to figure out what’s next.

Meet a man who could be called the “Hillaryland Whisperer.”

On having sex with your high school girlfriend – and paying the price for years to come.

Prohibition couldn’t have happened without Wayne B. Wheeler, who foisted temperance on a thirsty nation 90 years ago.

On what lay behind Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and what lies ahead.

Ray Spencer went to jail for 20 years for molesting his kids. Then they started to question their memories.

Judge William H. Alsup, who presided over Oracle v. Google, has been coding for more than three decades.

Forty-seven years later, two daughters meet.

Fishing gear can pose a deadly threat to whales—and to those who try to save them.

First the red bees arrived. Then a Red Hook cherry factory’s true purpose came to light.

Damilare Sonoiki and Mychal Kendricks made a very bad team.

An obsessive marine biologist gambles his savings, family, and sanity on a quest to be the first to capture a live giant squid.

When the apocalypse comes, survivors (and aliens!) will be happy that Martin Kunze built this place.

How Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann revolutionized sports broadcasting with SportsCenter.

The patient lasted just minutes after being taken off life support. By then it was too late.

Orthopedic surgery would have bankrupted us in the United States. So we went to Mexico instead.

But for heaven’s sake, the best-selling author, unapologetic cusser, and fifth-generation Texan would rather not be called that.

When the FDA approves lab-grown human organs for patients, Dean Kamen wants to be ready to mass-produce them.

In a Los Angeles suburb where schools and parents faltered, the American Dream was replaced by drugs, neo-Nazism, and despair.