How Cassandro, who wrestles in drag, became a star Mexican luchadore.

Adventures in acedia, from Aquinas to Bartleby.

How a major American company helped bring Charles Taylor to power in Liberia.

In 1916, a down-on-its-luck traveling circus hung its star elephant.

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

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

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.

When authorities fail families, Lissa Yellowbird-Chase steps in.

Thirty-year-old payment processing CEO Dan Price made an audacious decision and was rewarded with viral stardom. But what were his real motivations?

Filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón and his four years of production on Gravity.

Prosecutors have spun creative theories to explain away scientific evidence when DNA tests haven’t fit their version of events.

A married father of two tracks down his free-living doppelgänger, a musician who has avoided responsibility at every turn, to see who’s happier.

A profile of 12-year-old actress Elle Fanning, Dakota’s sister.

He hacked a hospital to protest their treatment of a sick child. Now he’s facing 15 years.

Eric Schneiderman faces a #MeToo reckoning of his own.

Veterans are taking their own lives on VA hospital campuses, a desperate form of protest against a system that they feel hasn’t helped them.

An attempt to understand why, after 50 years of decline, more and more young women are suddenly embracing religious life.

Trump transformed immigration through hundreds of quiet measures. Before they can be reversed, they have to be uncovered.

How cable sports channels extort hundreds of dollars per year out of every cable subscriber for programming that less than 10% regularly watch.

Trying to prevent the next tragedy.

The Sandy Hook killer’s father tells his story.

How the mall was born.

A daughter remembers her father’s glass eye.

On jazz and the hipster psychopath.