Finding the thread of depression in the personal history of a friend’s suicide.

How the National Enquirer became a 2010 Pulitzer contender without straying from its roots as a supermarket tabloid.

[Part 1 of 2] The story behind this spring’s spate of retributive murders in Southwest D.C.

On the utter brutality of life in the tent cities, one year after the earthquake.

A murder involving one of the India’s celebrity couples has mesmerized the country and exposed some of its darkest fears.

How Irv Teibel pioneered the capturing and repackaging of nature’s acoustics.

A dispatch from a Russian town under siege by hungry bears.

The results can be deadly.

The rise and fall of a violent underground anti-racist group.

A conversation with 97-year-old Ben Ferencz.

At 15, Ruben Urbina couldn’t bear his depression and anxiety anymore. So he called police with a chilling threat.

Most of the fish we eat die by asphyxiation. But there’s a better way, both for the fish and those who eat them.

How the relationship between Canada and America broke.

World-famous Houston surgeon Bud Frazier spent decades developing a revolutionary device that could save millions of lives.

They listened to the radio until there was nothing more to do. Philip went into the house and retrieved a container of Kraft vanilla pudding, which he’d mixed with all the drugs he could find in the house—Valium, Klonopin, Percocet, and so on. He opened the passenger-­side door and knelt beside Becky. He held a spoon, and she guided it to her mouth. When Becky had eaten all the pudding, he got back into the driver’s seat and swallowed a handful of pills. Philip asked her how the pudding tasted. “Like freedom,” she said. As they lost consciousness, the winter chill seeped into their clothes and skin.

An interview with F. Lee Bailey about his 60 years of celebrity trials.

How new technologies and techniques pioneered by dictators will shape the 2020 election.

America’s poet laureate of the dick joke is taking it all in stride.

The refugee and author survived, stateless, for seven years. What’s next?

A profile of England’s pre-eminent scholar of race, culture, and nationalism.

Utah says the White Mesa Mill isn’t contaminating groundwater, but its neighbor, the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, disagrees.

A profile of Tiny Lister, the silver screen’s half-blind villain.

On CEO Reed Hastings and the future of Netflix.

Andre Thomas cut out his children’s hearts and removed his own eyes. Texas considers him sane.