How Amazon’s gigantic, decentralized, next-day delivery network brought chaos, exploitation, and danger to communities across America.

After the Christchurch mosque shootings, New Zealand was stunned to silence. But only momentarily.

The untold story of Patriots owner Robert Kraft’s two visits to the Orchids of Asia Day Spa.

The Navy installed touch-screen steering systems to save money. Ten sailors paid with their lives.

A profile of Mo Isom, a former goalie on the LSU women’s soccer team now trying to kick for the football team.

A profile of Erik Prince, then the CEO of America’s largest and most controversial mercenary force, Blackwater, who happened to be a C.I.A. agent.

Sharon Stern devoted herself to Butoh, a Buddhist-influenced Japanese dance. Did her mentor lead her down a dangerous path?

Want to know why wild conspiracism can be so irresistible? Ask a 14-year-old girl.

The rare Chilean soapbark tree produces compounds that can boost the body’s reaction to vaccines.

A device connected to my heart could save my life. It could also be hacked.

When it comes to data from India’s 500 million daily internet users, everything is for sale.

A brutal, bloody hunt. A ghastly, devastating attack. And a state left divided on what to do about its 2,500 black bears.

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen grew up to make New York’s most desirable clothes. But can even perfection survive the pandemic?

Hundreds of workers at a Tampa lead smelter have been exposed to dangerous levels of the neurotoxin. The consequences have been profound.

Hundreds of workers at a Tampa lead smelter have been exposed to dangerous levels of the neurotoxin. The consequences have been profound.

Ari Emanuel, Hollywood’s most tenacious agent, tries to remake himself as a mogul.

The rush to find a conspiracy around the COVID-19 pandemic’s origins is driven by narrative, not evidence.

An ocean race from the Olympic Peninsula to Alaska, with no motors allowed.

One writer travels to “La Serenissima” and finds that time is no match for Venice’s magic.

The singer-songwriter tries to hold down an uncertain moment.

Scientists predict Tangier Island could be uninhabitable within 25 years. This is the story of the people willing to go down with it.

The enforcer for Oregon’s grocery industry made enemies. One tried to kill him with thallium.

Breslin’s unflinching and devastating investigation of the porn industry in Los Angeles would be at home in many an excellent magazine. But Breslin didn’t go that route. Instead, she built a custom site that presents the story with her photographs and design.

-A. Madrigal

In the basement of the White House, in an office with no windows, an MFA grad named Ben Rhodes is telling the story of America’s foreign policy.

In 1980, four American nuns were murdered in El Salvador. This is the story of how a young American official stationed there singlehandedly found the culprits.

Excerpted from Weakness and Deceit: America and El Salvador's Dirty War