Instead, they got scorched.

A slick-talking con artist turned an innocent brother and sister into his personal slaves.

On the ethics of putting the internet’s spotlight on a neighborhood restaurant.

He never saw it coming.

Is the genetically engineered chestnut tree an act of ecological restoration or a threat to wild forests?

How killing by remote control has changed the way we fight.

Was she the reason he was alive today?

She tore up a picture of the pope. Then her life came apart. These days, she just wants to make music.

Why a Nova Scotia community is still searching for the killer of a beloved farmer thirty years later.

During the pandemic, people from the author’s hometown got sucked into QAnon and the Q-adjacent “Save the Children” movement.

What I learned about rich people, conspiracy, “genius,” Ghislaine, stand-up comedy, and evil from 2,000 phone calls.

Why did I ever believe a teen girl could hold all the power?

A sketch artist and a grieving mother set out to solve a cold case. The more they dug, the more terrifying the truth became.

For nearly 200 years, San Francisco has been the last stop of petty thieves, con artists and killers. Iva Kroeger was all three.

Trees have always migrated to survive. But now they need our help to avoid climate catastrophe.

Inside the shadowy meetings between Chicago’s violent gang members and its elected officials.

A conversation with Vasily Gotov:

"Russia undoubtedly celebrated the reports in American media about its activities. They want to instill doubt. They want to be part of the agenda. They want to penetrate our media culture. Russian penetration is dramatically overstated in American media, but that only serves them better. It creates the impression that they're more powerful than they are. That discussions like this are necessary at all is a tremendous win for Russia."

Like hundreds of other local slaves — [they] had been pressed into service by the Confederates, compelled to build an artillery emplacement amid the dunes across the harbor. They labored beneath the banner of the 115th Virginia Militia, a blue flag bearing a motto in golden letters: “Give me liberty or give me death.”

On the complete corruption of Paul Bergin, a federal attorney turned high-priced defense lawyer now awaiting trial on a host of charges.

If Paul is guilty of half the things they say, he’d be the craziest, most evil lawyer in the history of the State of New Jersey. That is saying something.

Growing up in Toledo, Ohio, Gina Grimm always wondered who her biological parents were. “You know, you go to the supermarket and think, ‘That lady kinda has my nose.’ Or, you know, ‘That man kinda has a resemblance to my face.’”