The story of a pair of murdered whooping cranes and just how difficult it is to save a endangered species.

How two couples found a way to play the preschool system for profit.

How an obsessive New Age hustler brought the sound of the ocean to millions of home stereos.

What it takes to defect from the military state of one of the world’s youngest countries.

An investigation into America’s largest chain of psychiatric hospitals, where patients are held against their will to maximize profits.

The Harvard Law School legend has defended everyone from O.J. Simpson to Claus von Bülow. Now he’s facing his toughest case yet: his own.

ProDoula wants to revolutionize the touchy-feely doula profession — and make millions of dollars along the way.

We devote vast resources to intensive, one-off procedures, while starving the kind of steady, intimate care that often helps people more.

How Barack Obama decided to green-light the operation that killed Osama bin Laden.

Efraim Zuroff does not want to retire.

The author travels to Dubai; Arab children see snow for the first time, which is made by a Kenyan.

How the United States came to spend more on defense than all the other nations of the world combined.

An 88-year-old woman is taken from her Wisconsin farmhouse. Inside the investigation to find her.

On Julian Jaynes, a Princeton psychologist who told the story of how humans learned to think.

The pharmaceutical quest to give women a better sex life.

The author, an abortion counselor, was 40 and pregnant when a conflicted Catholic woman came to her clinic.

Why the head of Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey hired a former CIA agent to ruin a freelance writer’s career.

What happens when a 26-year-old Kentucky resident decides to investigate a rape case from his computer.

Basketball on a Crow reservation and a player named Jonathan Takes Enemy trying to escape.

More than 100 years after they were discovered, we’re still looking for an answer as to why blood types exist.

The people who go missing while crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, and the people who attempt to identify their remains.

A pair of gamblers and a glitch too good to last.

The lives of Sue and Hector Badeau, who felt a calling to raise children and adopted twenty of them.

How an entire industry built itself convincing lead-paint poisoning victims to sign over settlement payments for a fraction of what they’re worth.

The men who say they’ll try to save the once-bustling gambling resort town.