A caller poses as a policeman and convinces McDonald’s managers to strip-search a female employee. It’s not the first time.

On the group of friends who came to rule the bizarre, decreasingly lucrative world of Internet porn.

How J.C. Penney gamed Google and became the top result for searches on everything from “area rugs” to “skinny jeans.”

What it’s like to write about a candidate who hates you.

“Nearly half of Americans would have trouble finding $400 to pay for an emergency. I’m one of them.”

An ancient document suggests that Jesus had a wife. But an investigation into its origins leads to … Florida.

The story of the meeting that led to the creation of ISIS, as explained by someone still on the inside.

We like to believe that the blame for wrongful convictions falls on individuals: the racist prosecutor, the crooked cop. It doesn’t always work that way.

A young Brazilian couple from “an impoverished northeastern city that’s been described as ground zero of the Zika epidemic” struggle to care for their daughter.

“Irrational behavior has always been man’s reaction to the presence of sharks.”

The article that inspired Jaws.

On Keith Richards’ autobiography.

There’s some very sensible advice on how to take drugs, too.

Alberto Nisman accused Iran and Argentina of colluding to bury a terrorist attack. Did it get him killed?

What happens to the people who film famous incidents of police violence.

It was the failed dream of the heir to the Frank-o-Matic sausage-link machinery fortune.

If you’re falsely claiming to have once been a Navy SEAL, Don Shipley will expose you. And then he’ll put the video on YouTube.

No contemporary artist has used natural history to tell the kind of stories that painter Walton Ford tells.

We think of the character as lithe and slim as the actors who’ve played him. But Shakespeare might not have intended him to be that way.

Julia, a 30-year-old, has spent her life trying not to take more than what she needs from the world. It’s made life very difficult.

The Hollywood backroom machinations that got the biopic to movie screens.

A trip to Papua New Guinea, “an island caught between the ancient world and 2015.”

An interview with Tiger Woods as he turns 40.

Emily and Kate wanted to have a baby together. They were more successful than they ever imagined.

How an art shipper took advantage of the market’s opaque rules and shadowy deal-making to rip off a Russian oligarch.

“Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”

Seven months ago, an underdog Brazilian soccer team boarded a plane to play the game of their lives. They never made it.