Five Mexican fishermen head out with enough supplies for several days. They’re gone for nine months. A story of survival in the South Pacific.

Twelve years ago, Amber Wyatt reported her rape. Few believed her. Her hometown turned against her. The authorities failed her.

An acclaimed American charity said it was saving some of the world’s most vulnerable girls from sexual exploitation. But from the very beginning, girls were being raped.

Wealthy businessman Merv Bodnarchuk put together the dream team of curling. Then he put himself in the lineup.

Where words fail, there is music.

What happened to the group of bright college students who fell under the sway of a classmate’s father?

The need for a new letter on an old manual machine leads the author to the shop of Martin Tytell — repairman, historian, and high priest of typewriters.

A confrontation with masculinity gone awry.

The case against “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh.

A profile of a 25-year-old Spanish sensation.

For eight hours last fall, Paradise, Calif., became a zone at the limits of the American imagination — and a preview of the American future.

The moderators who keep Google and Youtube free of beheadings and child porn now have PTSD themselves.

Mountain athletes face death and grief more often than most of us. One therapist thinks he can help.

It began with a series of anonymous sexual-harassment complaints that the writer knew were false. But the truth was far stranger.

A profile of Marlon Brando, 33, holed up in a hotel suite in Kyoto where he was filming Sayonara.

For the first time, data scientists have modeled how climate refugees might move across international borders. This is what they found.

Each year, California’s child protective services agencies remove thousands of kids from their homes. The story of how some parents decided to fight back.

How eBay’s Global Security and Resiliency team ran a rogue campaign to terrorize a blogger couple with insects, pornography and pizza.

On Bill May, considered to be the greatest male synchronized swimmer who ever lived, and his long quest for Olympic gold.

“A quarantine facial-hair experiment led me to a deep consideration of my Blackness.”

“I never thought about ending my pregnancy. Instead, at 19, I erased the future I had imagined for myself.”

A week in the author’s life when it became impossible to control the course of events.

A community says its children are being targeted by a group of pedophiles. But did widespread sexual abuse actually take place?

How a secretive Israel billionaire seized control of an untapped iron ore deposit beneath one of Africa’s poorest countries.