How prison changed the former pro scout.

How the JAP became America’s most complex Jewish stereotype.

Lyra McKee’s last story.

Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles?

How the USPS works.

Inside the tech industry’s decades-long failure to reckon with risk.

A couple, a caregiver, and a promise.

A 32-year-old medical student finally goes on the record.

It’s not just the economy, stupid.

How a police organization transitioned from a social club to an obstacle to reform.

What lasting impact will the pandemic have on America’s first responders?

On Manson bloggers, murder fandom and being a sad, dark teen.

He was an 18 year old Marine bound for Iraq. She was a high school senior in West Virginia. They grew intimate over IM. His dad also started contacting her.  No one was who they claimed to be and it led to a murder.

He has a staff of 300. His website gets more traffic than Gawker and has 300,000 paying subscribers. He has a clothing line, a string of bestselling books, a movie studio and a radio show syndicated on 400 stations. A profile of Glenn Beck, mogul.

A profile of Quentin Rowan, a.k.a. Q. R. Markham, ‘author’ of last fall’s short-lived spy novel hit Assassins of Secrets, which was pieced together using more than a dozen sources.

Interviews with 19 current and former officers show how failures of leadership and communication put hundreds of Capitol cops at risk and allowed rioters to get dangerously close to members of Congress on January 6th, 2021.

There’s a price you have to pay for fame, and people who don’t want to pay that price can get in trouble. I accepted the idea of celebrity because of a French expression: “You cannot have the butter and the money for the butter.”

Eight of serial killer John Wayne Gacy’s victims remained a mystery, 35 years after his conviction. One man made it his mission to identify them.

“‘It’s like a novel,’ a newspaper editor once told me, shaking his head. When I recently asked Ruggeri, the chief investigator, to sum up the case, she stared at her desk and just said ‘incredible’ four times.”

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s friends didn’t realize what he’d done until they saw his image on television.

The region’s hyper-local response has lessons for us as we confront the winter wave and begin to distribute vaccines.

The agency, seeking information on an animal rights group, attempted to recruit a former truck driver as an informant, the truck driver says.

Notes on humiliation.

Can suicide be predicted?

In 1984, Jacqui met Bob Lambert at an animal-rights protest. They fell in love, had a son. Then Bob disappeared. It would take 25 years for Jacqui to learn that he had been working undercover.