A profile of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

The growth of an immersive universe that is “part game and part soap opera and part shadow economy.”

An 8th-generation Louisvillian on the Kentucky Derby, bourbon and the history of his hometown.

In a Turkish hotel, veterans of the Libyan Revolution meet with their fractured Syrian counterparts to transfer know-how and heavy weaponry.

Twenty-six years after he was wrongfully imprisoned for the murder of his wife, Michael Morton sees the real killer brought to justice in a Texas courthouse.

On Ephemerisle, a “floating festival of radical self-reliance,” and other attempts at creating an island utopia.

The dangerous work of harvesting your food.

A profile of lawyer Jacques Vergès, who died yesterday after decades spent defending war criminals, terrorists and dictators.

A profile of Elizabeth Gilbert, whose bestselling memoir may have sunk her literary career.

The lost dream of Korleone Young, a high school basketball star who skipped college and flamed out after only one NBA season.

What the rapidly changing world of teenage hook-up culture means for young women.

An analysis of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and Cotton Tenants, the original manuscript.

The underground economy of child sex trafficking, and what happens after someone is rescued from it.

Sixty years later, a dishonorably discharged World War I veteran makes one final appeal. The 1980 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.

On the factories of India and the women whose lives they ruin.

A battle against an invasive breed of ants has begun in Texas. It also might be over already.

The case of Gilberto Valle, “The Cannibal Cop,” and the line between criminal thoughts and action.

The congressman (and future Mayor of New York) vs. the South American assassin.

Stuck between the Taliban and the U.S. Military, Afghanistan’s farmers risk their lives both when they grow, and when they refuse to grow, fields of poppies.

One part rapist, one part con-man; the story of the seemingly unconvictable Hy Doan.

A profile of 21-year-old Dan Cates, who made $5.5 million playing 145,215 hands in 2010.

The inner workings of a high school basketball team stacked with international talent.

In 1991, Frank Sterling confessed to a crime he didn’t commit. His story highlights a common – and controversial – method of police interrogation.

The emergence of a radio phenomenon popular amongst young demographic believed lost to interactive distractions.