The inquiry into a nurse’s suicide after she was on the receiving end of a crank call.

Departing Marrakech by car with a plan to record music for the Library of Congress.

How to buy college football players, in the words of a man who delivers the money.

On the trail of Austin Tice and the late James Foley, freelance journalists who were kidnapped in Syria in 2012.

The first profile of the disgraced journalist.

A profile of Bosnian striker Vedad Ibisevic, who has come home after escaping the war more than 20 years ago.

How a bipolar diagnosis follows you from the top to the bottom of professional basketball.

A profile of Ken Regan, a computer scientist, chess master, and world champion at detecting cheaters in chess.

Severely depressed snow leopards, obsessive-compulsive brown bears, phobic zebras and the inner lives of other captive creatures.

How the feds went after Thick Neck, Guilty, Stomper, Gunner, Lucky, Menace, and the rest of the Amernian mob in Los Angeles.

A 2011 profile of LeBron James, originally meant to run in Port, that was killed by Nike.

Who is Shmuley Boteach, former reality TV star and author of Kosher Sex?

Shirley Dygert had never jumped before. Dave Hartsock jumped for a living. Neither of them knew what to expect when the parachute failed.

On the anger that led to the Watts Riots of 1965, the mistakes made during those six days in August, and how little changed afterward.

Elon Musk’s dreams of colonizing Mars.

The political maneuvering behind the growth of massive consumer goods warehouses and the health hazards that often follow.

Fifty years later, the men who stole priceless gems from the Museum of Natural History recall the crime.

The story of John Laroche, which led to Orleans’ The Orchid Thief, and tangentially, the film Adaptation.

The perilous existence of confidential informants.

How a group of farmers came to believe that their relatives were returning from the grave.

How modernity – and an eruption of violence – changed “the most remote inhabited island on the Atlantic seaboard.”

The rise of One Direction fanfiction that imagines the band members in relationships – with each other.

A “crude table-tennis arcade game” called Pong and the birth of the video game industry.

Analysis of the divisive murder case.

On high school basketball star Chris Tang and the pressures of being the “Great Yellow Hope.”