How the media and law enforcement fingered the wrong man for the 1996 Olympic Park bombing.

The global scramble for this vital item has exposed the harsh realities of international politics and the limits of the free market.

The story of a high school star who died minutes after hitting a game-winner to end an undefeated season, and the family and friends he left behind.

A tech neophyte looks for answers in Silicon Valley, “the last place in America where people are this optimistic.”

Interviews, documents and jailhouse recordings reveal a clearer picture of the life and death of the 26-year-old emergency room technician.

Watching Florida government on the state and local level is like watching two parents bring an alcoholic home after he got kicked out of rehab and deciding that the best course of action is leaving him with $5,000 in an apartment up the street from a dive bar and then going to Cancun for the week. It was on the calendar already, there wasn’t any choice, he looked very healthy at the time!

The people behind the search for the “God particle.”

Billy Mitchell’s quest for video game perfection.

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

How a series of lies and an incompetent lawyer led to a Florida woman’s wrongful conviction.

Inside a small town revived by an influx of immigrants and then destroyed by a Homeland Security raid.

“I feel like we sort of choked.”

Andrew Therrien wanted payback. He got it—and uncovered a conspiracy.

A group of volunteers is helping incarcerated people negotiate a system that is all but broken.

How two interior decorators took the fall for the Cali Cartel.

In the midst of a national crisis, mothers addicted to drugs struggle to get off them — for their babies’ sake, and their own.

She survived an evil, gruesome attack. Her partner did not. An account of a victim, a widow, telling her story on the witness stand.

Update, 4/16/12: This piece was just awarded the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.

Gavin McInnes used to be known as a Vice magazine co-founder with controversial political leanings and an affinity for darkly unfunny jokes. Now, he’s also known as the founder of the far-right group the Proud Boys.

For years, Mark Zuckerberg has faced criticism that Facebook is bad for democracy. A cache of leaked audio reveals the story of how much ultimately comes down to his judgment—and the forces freezing him in place.

A few months after working at Ground Zero, Kurt Sonnenfeld became a suspect in the mysterious and high-profile death of his wife. He got off, barely, and started a new life in South America. But when the U.S. tried to bring him back to face charges, Sonnenfeld went to the local media. The Feds didn’t want him for murder, he said. They wanted to put him away because of what he knew about 9/11.

The story of September 26, 2014, the day 43 Mexican students went missing.

Did A.Q. Khan sell nuclear secrets on the black market? The fame had unbalanced him. He was subjected to a degree of public acclaim rarely seen in the West—an extreme close to idol worship, which made him hungry for more. Money seems never to have been his obsession, but it did play a role.

The baseball game that launched a career in fiction.

The case for paying college athletes.