How Madden NFL went from a programmer’s childhood dream to a $3 billion business.

Nick Denton is rebooting his entire Gawker empire—and his vision is drawn more from TV than blogs.

A profile of A.J. Daulerio, editor of Deadspin and procurer of, among other things, cell phone pics of Brett Favre’s penis.

A year-long investigation of America’s coroners and medical examiners reveals a deeply flawed, deeply troubling system.

A profile of Republican Eric Cantor: six-term congressman, new House majority leader, highest-ranking Jewish elected official in American history.

A profile of Alex Jones, who draws a bigger online audience than Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh combined.

Over a million people are buried in a potter’s field on Hart Island. Here are some of their stories.

Who was Omar Mateen?

Every table at Damon Baehrel’s restaurant is booked until 2025. Or is it?

Controversy following a climbing disaster that killed eight.

We know that certain programs can help prevent gun deaths among black men. No one in Washington seems to care.

No one knew her secret. Until they did.

Inside “a surreal world of pseudo-scientific methods and jargon, traumatizing psychodramas and nude cuddling with counselors.”

Rob Billot spent eight years defending corporate clients in environmental cases. Then Wilbur Tennant called.

A traveler tries to make sense of a beautiful island with a dark past.

How did a tenure-track professor wind up selling his plasma? A story about debt.

Short-seller Andrew Left sniffs out corporate fraud—and gets rich doing it.

“My cousin became a convicted felon in his teens. I tried to make sure he got a second chance. What went wrong?”

Could Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump goad each other into a devastating confrontation?

A Dickensian profession that can still pay upwards of $650,000 per year.

Twelve new ways of measuring Hollywood’s gender imbalance.

Officers can lie to juries or brutally beat civilians and still keep their jobs.

If you are an enemy of Putin, there’s one city where intrigue and assassins are bound to follow you.

A 23-year-old living in Chile was suddenly attacked and buried alive by her roommate. She later learned she wasn’t his first – or last – victim.

How an obscure legal document turned New York’s court system into a debt-collection machine.