On Cecilia Chang, the St. John’s fundraiser who committed suicide after being convicted of fraud, and the university administrators who benefited from her crime.

A son’s memory of the father he lost at 13, excerpted from The Magical Stranger.

What happens when a 26-year-old Kentucky resident decides to investigate a rape case from his computer.

Who was Ashraf Marwan working for when he fell to his death from the balcony of a London flat?

Behind the character Ursula in The Little Mermaid was a legendary drag queen from Baltimore named Divine.

How Dennis from Head of the Class grew up to be the Aaron Sorkin of tween television.

How Lalit Modi built a billion-dollar cricket empire—only to be exiled from his sport and homeland.

What it means to become a superpower while three quarters of the population lives on less than fifty cents per day—four scenes from India in transition.

A report from the Central African Republic, where "acts of extraordinary cruelty have become commonplace."

How Ross Ulbricht went from idealistic used-book seller to murderous drug kingpin.

Notes from a never-finished biography of the neurologist, humanist and writer.

Football-related brain damage made Rickie Harris fall from the heights of the NFL to serving a DUI sentence in his ex-wife’s basement.

In 2008, a 38-year old Oklahoma nurse whom I'll call Kelly adopted an eight-year old girl, "Mary," from Ethiopia. It was the second adoption for Kelly, following one from Guatemala. She'd sought out a child from Ethiopia in the hopes of avoiding some of the ethical problems of adopting from Guatemala: widespread stories of birthmothers coerced to give up their babies and even payments and abductions at the hands of brokers procuring adoptees for unwitting U.S. parents. Now, even after using a reputable agency in Ethiopia, Kelly has come to believe that Mary never should have been placed for adoption.

From Tetris to Angry Birds, an examination of “stupid games.”

How a convicted sexual predator emptied the bank accounts and ruined the lives of several women from behind bars.

A history of The New Yorker and its editors, from founder Harold Ross through Tina Brown.

A 2006 profile of Mark Zuckerberg as Facebook opened from a college-only site to a public social network.

How YouTube went from ubiquitous to profitable; and where it goes next.

From 2009 to 2014, police in Florida shot 827 people. Many of these incidents were avoidable and unnecessary.

A dispatch from Anthony Scaramucci’s SALT Conference.

West Virginia has the highest overdose death rate in the country. Locals are fighting to save their neighbors—and their towns—from destruction.

A profile of Seth Moulton, the junior congressman from Massachusetts.

No one knows quite what to do with these coerced masks made from the faces of Native American POWS.

Mike Picarella wanted to protect a co-worker from humiliating sexual harassment. He didn’t expect his own life to be destroyed in the process.