Did a school for spies get conned by a fake spook who molested students?

Will artificial intelligence bring utopia or destruction?

A baby’s brain needs love to develop.

Why do people with dementia become lost?

Six women tell their stories.

How one Texas boxing match changed history.

How the Pentagon makes “Koch Industries look like an organic farm” when it comes to toxic water contamination.

The author visits Franklin County, Mississippi, where, according to census data, there are zero same-sex couples.

How an Italian thug looted MGM, brought Credit Lyonnais to its knees, and made the Pope cry.

A decorated Iraq war veteran with PTSD kills his brother and himself after a high-speed chase near the Grand Canyon.

Lessons learned about Washington from investigating how the “grand bargain” fell apart.

How a tiny island 5,000 miles from the U.S. mainland has produced so many NFL players.

How Michael Lewis’s The Big Short became a Hollywood comedy.

Celebrated doctor Paolo Macchiarini was not all that he seemed.

What happend to Serafim Todorov after the 1996 Olympic featherweight semifinals.

How the National Enquirer became a 2010 Pulitzer contender without straying from its roots as a supermarket tabloid.

How the Weinstein Brothers barked their way into an empire and then lost it.

Fifty years ago, rodeo man Bob Gimlin was a Bigfoot skeptic. Then he and a friend caught the creature on tape.

A conversation with 97-year-old Ben Ferencz.

How the federal government abused its power to seize property for a border fence.

More than a year ago, Nevada death row prisoner Scott Dozier gave up his legal appeals and asked to be executed. He’s still waiting.

How a Sacramento Kings executive stole more than $13 million from the team—and almost got away with it.

It was a fraught, utterly uncharted presidential transition—four years ago, from Obama to Trump. It was a prelude for so much that followed.