On having sex with your high school girlfriend – and paying the price for years to come.

A married father of two tracks down his free-living doppelgänger, a musician who has avoided responsibility at every turn, to see who’s happier.

“Being Justin Bieber means having an endless number of T-shirts to destroy.” A profile of the pop star just after his 18th birthday.

It’s a club “filled exclusively with people who do not want to be members.”

An ode to professional basketball players and why pro ball is the best ball of all.

75 years after its founding, it’s still hard to explain exactly why Alcoholics Anonymous works.

A year after dozens died protesting his election and hundreds more were imprisoned, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad grants a rare interview to an American journalist.

A 2006 profile of Mark Zuckerberg as Facebook opened from a college-only site to a public social network.

The brain of Henry Molaison gave science most of what it knows about memory. Dr. Jacopo Annese believes there’s even more to learn.

Inside Office 39, a state-run counterfeiting operation designed to keep Kim Jong-il flush.

How YouTube went from ubiquitous to profitable; and where it goes next.

“If genius is hard to define, madness is even more so.” One chess champion’s take on the tortured life of another.

A team of researchers has a controversial plan to root fake data out of science.

A brutal custody battle raises questions about who has a right to rear a child and what the legal meaning of a family should be.

After their mother was deported to Mexico, the Marin siblings faced an impossible choice: Stay or go.

He hacked a hospital to protest their treatment of a sick child. Now he’s facing 15 years.

A visit to the ‘Castle’ where self-driving cars learn.

How the media company failed to create “a safe and inclusive workplace” for women.

It was burned and sunk to hide the crime. Now its probable remains have been located.

The science on the link is clear, but the alcohol industry has worked hard to downplay it.

First the red bees arrived. Then a Red Hook cherry factory’s true purpose came to light.

All Artur Samarin wanted to be was a normal American teenager. So that’s what he became.

Inside Arnold’s manic, occasionally dishonest quest to find tapes of Trump using slurs on the set of The Apprentice.

Inside a plot to influence American elections, starting with one small-town race.

Pat Gallant-Charette is 68. She’s on a quest to beat marathon swimming’s globe-spanning challenge.