Growing up among the tall waves and schoolyard bullies of Hawaii.

On surfer girls in Maui: the story that led to the film Blue Crush.

A profile of Ken Bradshaw, who at 45 surfed the tallest wave in recorded history.

A visit to the massive Northern California surf break.

The underground culture of big waves and wild times in 1961 Malibu, and the gang of teenage boys who worshiped at the feet of the beach’s dark prince, surfing legend and grifter Miki Dora.

Getting away from it all in Mexico.

On surf legend Eddie Aikau and the complicated history of Hawaii.

A trip to the French island of Réunion to report on a bloody battle between surfers and sharks.

On surfing, and surfing in San Francisco, and surfing with a San Francisco surfing fanatic.

The investigation that brought down K2 Productions.

Basketball’s iconoclast is a broke recluse at 37.

The hellacious childhood of two billionaires-to-be.

The story behind the spectacle.

He was a villain. She was a victim. It wasn’t that simple.

The trial of a 10-year-old who murdered his neo-Nazi father.

Escaping with Kink.com’s Princess Donna Dolore.

Parsing the lives of middle-class twentysomethings.

Young love and an apartment filled with heavy weaponry.

Searching for Dave Chappelle ten years after he left his show.

“If you think cam girls—those flirty naked characters that plague porn site pop-up ads—are raking in easy money, you’re right. If you think cam girls are bleakly stripping online out of desperation, you’re also right.”

How a loathsome band makes gobs of money.

Scientology’s stronghold on Tom Cruise’s dating life.

A master troll on trial in New Jersey.

As a 15-year runaway hitchhiker, the writer was nearly killed by a trucker. Twenty seven years later, she investigates whether her attacker was truck stop serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades, who often kept his victims chained in the back of his truck for weeks before killing and dumping them.

Sex in the Olympic Village.

Hanging out with Barack Obama.

The strangest and most volatile American drug craze since crack.

How child molesters get away with it.

The decades-long saga of Michael Morton, who was wrongfully convicted of killing his wife.

A gay freshman at Rutgers, a spying roommate, and the trial that followed.

The decades-long saga of Michael Morton, who was wrongfully convicted of killing his wife.

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How a Mexican drug cartel makes its billions.

The false promise and double standard of integration in the Obama era.

The rise and fall of the “most far-flung, most organized, and most brazen example of homosexual extortion in the nation’s history.”

“When I died, I died of many things: the failing systems; the weakening of age; the exhaustion of the long war against dying. Finally, I succumbed to the lack of ethics in a California hospital, killed by filth and neglect.”

The insanity of U.S. gun law.

“Reg Smythe was the greatest British newspaper strip cartoonist of the 20th Century—and second only to Peanuts’ Charles Schulz on a global scale. So why don’t we treat him that way?”

How the U.S. lost out on iPhone work.

As a 15-year runaway hitchhiker, the writer was nearly killed by a trucker. Twenty seven years later, she investigates whether her attacker was truck stop serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades.

“If you think cam girls—those flirty naked characters that plague porn site pop-up ads—are raking in easy money, you’re right. If you think cam girls are bleakly stripping online out of desperation, you’re also right.”

Eight women remember their first time.

Sex and status disclosure in the age of Grindr and undetectable HIV-levels.

Iran’s sex-obsessed old guard reacts to a state where “the majority of the population is young.… Young people by nature are horny. Because they are horny, they like to watch satellite channels where there are films or programs they can jerk off to.… We have to do something about satellite television to keep society free from this horny jerk-off situation.”

Sex in the Olympic Village.

Susannah Breslin ambitiously self-publishes a piece on the rise and advancing crash of the pornography industry in a certain suburb of Los Angeles.

A former sex worker interviews a longtime John on how it feels to pay.

The Great Recession’s impact on the legalized prostitution industry in Nevada: more hookers, fewer johns.

A 3-part investigation of human trafficking and the international sex trade, with stops in Costa Rica, Moldova, and the Philippines.

Cycles of boom and bust in the drilling town of Williston, N.D., as seen from the perspective of an itinerant dancer filling one of three slots at the only strip club in town, Whispers.

The rise and fall of a boom-era escort agency in New York City.

The lives of women who make their living on the web.