Every year, more than $6 billion is raised by breast cancer charities. A look at how much of that money ends up in the hands of scammers.

An oddball team of ship salvagers is tasked with uprighting a tipped two-football-field-long cargo ship before it sinks into the darkness of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands.

Caffeine makes us more energetic, efficient and faster. But we have become so dependent that we need it just to get to our baseline.

President Trump hailed him as a catalyst of the summit with Kim Jong-Un. But what happened to Warmbier—the American college student who was sent home brain-damaged from North Korea—is even more shocking than anyone knew.

A novel interrogation technique is transforming the art of detective work: Shut up and let the suspect do the talking.

A visit to Albania to watch Henry Marsh perform his pioneering surgery where the patient is kept awake during the removal of a tumor and the “brain is stimulated with an electric probe, so that the surgeon can see if and how the patient reacts.”

The haunted aftermath of disaster in Japan.

On the artist’s portrayal of violence and humanity.

What can hyperpolyglots teach the rest of us?

An investigation into the family of the accused Boston Marathon bombers.

The rise of the Peoples Temple through the lens of an earlier group: Father Divine’s Peace Mission.

Reporting from Kuwait on the week of its liberation, a brutal account of the atrocities committed during seven months of Iraqi occupation.

A profile of the actor in the wake of the loss of his wife.

On the art of the takedown.

A weekend with the United Order of Tents, a semi-covert organization of black women.

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The aftereffects of youthful escapes into movie houses.

Mr. Jobs's pursuit for aesthetic beauty sometimes bordered on the extreme. George Crow, an Apple engineer in the 1980s and again from 1998 to 2005, recalls how Mr. Jobs wanted to make even the inside of computers beautiful. On the original Macintosh PC, Mr. Crow says Mr. Jobs wanted the internal wiring to be in the colors of Apple's early rainbow logo. Mr. Crow says he eventually convinced Mr. Jobs it was an unnecessary expense.

The misadventures of two hospital workers.

On the nature of coincidence.

Didion’s genius is that she understands what it is to be a girl on the cusp of womanhood, in that fragile, fleeting, emotional time that she explored in a way no one else ever has. Didion is, depending on the reader’s point of view, either an extraordinarily introspective or an extraordinarily narcissistic writer. As such, she is very much like her readers themselves.

On the sins of the lazy translator.

The story of an 80-year-old hoax.

Apocalypse camp at the dawn of the Great Extinction.

Justice isn’t so easy to come by when an American soldier stationed abroad is accused of murder.