The profile of a 34-year-old woman named Charity Johnson who tricked people all over the country into believing she was still in high school.

The writer is reluctantly whisked away to to a small house in upstate New York to attend an ayhuasca ceremony with six strangers.

Is Vemma an energy drink, the new Amway or a pyramid scheme taking advantage of college kids? Maybe all three.

A judge on the history and injustice of the plea bargain in America.

Working within Andalusia’s impoverished farming communities, a ragtag pair of longtime union leaders have been leading raids on local supermarkets.

In Colorado and beyond, a negotiated surrender in the war on drugs.

The story of Universe 25, a mouse utopia that became an overcrowded hell, and its implications for the future of humankind.

A profile of 23-year-old Leonardo DiCaprio (and his rowdy crew).

The story of twelve men trapped in a West Virginia mine, as remembered by the lone survivor.

Investigating a former NFL star’s new business: renting professional athletes to their biggest fans.

It was a 3-mile footrace. Thousands were in attendance. So how did Michael LeMaitre disappear?

“He was, it must be said, a pig. And my heart grew fonder.”

A 12-hour interview on career and craft.

A cultural history of Bitcoin and what happened when the nascent virtual currency began to be covered by the mainstream media.

A profile of the D.O.C., the rapper’s rapper, who ghostwrote for Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg.

Two decades later, unpacking a historic bust.

The private life of a disgraced former congressman.

A drunken evening with the Primer and Upstream Color director.

A trip to an uncompromising cattle ranch.

A collection of war stories told by women who have seen combat while serving in the U.S. military.

On a cruise with Syvlia Browne, the controversial psychic famous for telling distraught parents where their missing children are.

The story of 1968’s Golden Globe, a race to see who could become the first sailor to circumnavigate the world solo without stopping.

The “naked technological realities” of America’s heartland and how they power a “cosy coastal world of pretend farmers’ markets and happy cows.”

On the lesbian separatists of the 1970s, who “created a shadow society devoted to living in an alternate, penisless reality.”