A step-by-step proposal for fixing the broken economics of big-time college sports.

A Yale student on why nearly a quarter of her classmates will end up working for Wall Street.

Eddie Davison sued New York for locking him up under a false premise. Now the state says he owes $2 million.

A correspondence school for writers turns out to be a sham. This piece forced it into bankruptcy.

He has been in the NBA for 50 years. He’s won nine championships. And he can’t walk away.

What happened after two Wisconsin girls made headlines for attempting to kill their friend in the internet character’s name.

Why did it take so long for the systems that are supposed to police problem doctors to stop him from operating?

What happens when people who have trouble fitting into a traditional workplace get one designed just for them?

The World Wide Fund for Nature funds vicious paramilitary forces to fight poaching.

Visas for farmworkers have surged under Trump. But the program has subjected some workers to horrific abuse.

Right-wing militias brace for civil conflict.

A new pro league is paying teenagers six figures to quit high school for basketball.

The Permian Basin is ground zero for a billion-dollar surge of zombie oil wells.

A profile of Chloë Sevigny, 19-year-old It Girl.

How memories go wrong.

A coffee shop owner finally gets to shut down his store.

How a Mexican drug cartel makes its billions.

A profile of Fiona Apple.

Is there really such a thing as brain death?

On losing your Beloved in 2020.

The city of Cleveland is on the hook $18.7 million in judgements for police brutality. They have a plan to get out of paying. And if it works, cities across the country could starting using the same maneuver.

A profile of the Waffle House terrorists, a group of senior citizens arrested by the Department of Homeland security for plotting a civil war, and the government-hired confidential informant who allegedly led the group astray.

When U.S. customs law met abstract art in the form of a bird, “shimmering and soaring toward the ceiling while the lawyers debated whether it was an ‘original sculpture’ or a metal ‘article or ware not specially provided for’ under the 1922 Tariff Act.”

In February 1637, the Dutch tulip market had grown to the point that a single bulb sold for more than 10 times the annual income of a skilled craftsworker. Then, almost overnight, the market crashed completely.

How did the most wanted man in America, the serial bomber behind the Atlanta Olympics explosion, survive for five years in the North Carolina woods? And was he helped?