How two Italian teenagers hacked the Soviet space program and may have heard the dying breaths of a lost cosmonaut.

A travelogue through the contradiction-rich and predominantly Muslim Southern Thailand.

“I have drunkenly sexually assaulted or raped women—the exact number of which I am currently determining.”

Computer programming once had much better gender balance than it does today. What went wrong?

The self-help author kicks off her presidential campaign.

A very Florida investigation.

A tale of missing money, heated lunchroom arguments, and flaxseed pizza crusts.

After two officers came to a Pacific Northwest community, longtime residents began to disappear.

Cycling through relapse and recovery, and the industry that enables both.

Whenever the black dress came out, Jessica Weisman’s mother knew she was “going after the Jewish people again.”

On the bohemian poet’s hidden career as a prolific copywriter.

“I wanted to be prepared for the worst nature could throw at me. But the real threat turned out to be human.”

An investigation into how the Church moves its money.

It wasn’t until death rates began to soar that society began to take the outbreak seriously enough.

To understand the state’s urban-rural divide, start by looking at Yamhill County’s proposed walking trail.

A profile of the comedian, who died Tuesday.

The story of imprisoned boxer James Scott, who contended for the light heavyweight title by staging fights inside Rahway prison.

On a childhood fascination with the mid-18th century battle.

When jobs vanish, Southern men find new ways to contribute.

A profile of the D.O.C., the rapper’s rapper, who ghostwrote for Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg.

Why almost everything we think we know about the iconic photo from Robinson’s first game is wrong.

The rise and fall and rise of Hill flack Kurt Bardella, and what it says about D.C. culture.

A dispatch from Eloise Woods, a natural burial ground where bodies are consigned directly to the earth.

The murky legacy of the former Attorney General.