How Jerry Falwell Jr. transformed Liberty University, one of the religious right’s most powerful institutions, into a wildly lucrative online empire.

Most of the fish we eat die by asphyxiation. But there’s a better way, both for the fish and those who eat them.

A walkout mostly failed to secure more funding for schools, but it has spawned a movement of politically engaged Okies.

Brock Turner’s twisted legacy—and a Stanford professor’s relentless pursuit of justice.

A secret network of women is working outside the law and the medical establishment to provide safe, cheap home abortions.

How a meteorite hunter’s obsession took him from the mountains of Colorado, to the Bundy Ranch, and eventually landed him in jail.

The future of Tesla.

A comprehensive history of the case against the Menendez brothers, built primarily on secret audio recording made by their self-promoting therapist.

“The academy’s prestige has been shattered, probably forever,” by allegations of sexual harassment and corruption.

World-famous Houston surgeon Bud Frazier spent decades developing a revolutionary device that could save millions of lives.

A profile of John McCain during the 2000 presidential race.

How one man’s imagined discovery of a sex-trafficking camp in the Sonoran Desert gained life online — and in the real world.

A statewide network of schools for disabled students has trapped black children in neglect and isolation.

The actual story behind those viral college acceptance videos out of T.M. Landry.

How an undercover oil industry mercenary tricked pipeline opponents into believing he was one of them.

The world’s fastest growing economy isn’t China; it’s the “unheralded alternative economic universe of System D” aka the $10 trillion global black market.

The untold story behind the mysterious disappearance of Fan Bingbing, the world’s biggest movie star.

The former NBA player is forever linked to the murder of his girlfriend.

The untold story of Alek Minassian, a year after the deadliest mass murder in Toronto history

More than 250 people have died since 2011 taking pictures of themselves in dangerous locations.

A profile of Edna Buchanan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning crime reporter for the Miami Herald during its heyday.

An interview with F. Lee Bailey about his 60 years of celebrity trials.

What do you do when you hear that Mike Tyson is opening a weed resort in the middle of the California desert? You go investigate.

What does it take to save a 300-pound loggerhead with a horrible injury? Inside the yearlong journey of recovery.

Mexico is now importing lots of its baseball talent from America.