He planned to write a memoir, The Life of a Migrant. Its central thesis: The American Dream is a lie.

Growth has slowed to a trickle in parts of Manchuria—but some young people are finding new careers online.

Seeking justice with the Trans Doe Task Force.

A profile of the comedian, who died Tuesday.

How the Ovitzs, a family of Jewish dwarves from Transylvania, survived Auschwitz.

What led to the death of a 5-year-old boy, “the Everychild in the state system.”

The grim world of outsourced content moderation.

The rise and fall of Lisette Lee, the self-proclaimed “Korean Paris Hilton,” who was busted for drug trafficking.

The disappearance of the mysterious “Pakistani asset” that helped the CIA zero in on Bin Laden.

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

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

Marketing research,the pre-Facebook history of ‘likeability,’ and why there will never be a ‘dislike’ button.

A midwife, a rash of stillbirths and miscarriages, and a town whose economy depends on fracking.

Life on the outside is full of unpleasant surprises for longtime inmates.

The mutual hatred of Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley, Jr., punctuated by great insults like “crypto-Nazi.”

For online advertisers, probably most of it. An investigation.

The writer reconnects with an old acquaintance who ten years earlier committed one of the most notorious crimes in New York history.

How the Caltech basketball team, losers of 310 straight conference games, figured out a formula for winning.

On the Kunsthal heist and the murky economics of making money from stolen paintings.

Searching for the mysterious tree kangaroo in one of the most remote places on Earth.

The unlikely ascent of A.Q. Khan, the scientist who gave Pakistan the Bomb, and his suspicious fall from grace.

The social rituals of the pansexual, bi-queer, metroflexible New York teen.

What it means to be an entrepreneur in Argentina, where economic crashes are a way of life.

Former Bob Ney, Mark Foley and William Jefferson underlings provide a street-level view of D.C. opprobrium.

A tony bedroom community in Los Angeles, a kidnapping gone horribly wrong, and the birth of a teenage fugitive.