Why did the El Faro cargo ship sail directly into the path of Hurricane Joaquin, killing all 33 aboard?

With the 428th pick in the 1974 NFL draft, the Green Bay Packers selected…one of the most violent killers in U.S. history.

How the Robin Hood of gamblers got ensnared in a money laundering scheme led by former football players.

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.

Did a forgotten black gumshoe inspire the famous works of both Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett?

Gwen Wright was raised in dozens of foster homes. A new housing experiment could spare her son the same fate.

Stephen Reed was “mayor for life” in Harrisburg, PA. Now he’s going to trial on 114 counts of bribery, theft, and fraud.

A 48-hour reconstruction of the Breitscheidplatz Attack and the political response.

The screaming ambassador to the sidewalks of New York City.

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

The article that inspired Jaws.

Hanging out with a new celebrity class: the teen kings and queens of social media.

To date, more than 500 people have been killed by police in America. This is the story of one, Charly Keunang.

On Keith Richards’ autobiography.

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

The life of Kimi Peck, a former screenwriter, once married to Gregory Peck’s son, who turned to “saving” stray dogs.

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

A treasure hunter found the world’s richest shipwreck off the coast of Cape Cod. Or at least that’s what he told his investors.

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.

The men whose profitable (and self-serving) antics preserved what we know of the Brontë sisters.

The true love story of Peanuts.

The death of a high school football player and the life that has followed for the kid who made the hit.

One of the first lefty political bloggers has no job, mostly tweets, and thinks Donald Trump has it right on immigration.

Inside “a surreal world of pseudo-scientific methods and jargon, traumatizing psychodramas and nude cuddling with counselors.”

A traveler tries to make sense of a beautiful island with a dark past.

The story of Akai Gurley before he was killed by a New York City police officer.