The DEA warns that drugs are funding terror. But is the agency stopping threats or staging them?

NSA-grade spyware is up for sale, and the world’s worst dictatorships are buying.

An interview with an ex-CIA agent who is a world expert on the history of car bombing.

One of the world’s most hazardous jobs is known for its intense pressure.

What do you do when you hear that Mike Tyson is opening a weed resort in the middle of the California desert? You go investigate.

One year ago the journalist Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and never walked out. This is what happened.

History’s largest mining operation is about to begin. It’s underwater—and the consequences are unimaginable.

Hundreds of families have flocked to Colorado hoping medical marijuana will relieve their children’s epileptic seizures. This is the story of one family’s migration.

After a member of the Church of Wells abruptly left the group (which may or may not be a cult), many held out hope. A week later she went back, and the church’s elders are eager to explain why.

Previously: Sinners in the Hands

The name Shecky can vacillate from noun to verb to adjective. The opinion of every comedian during that gilded age of show business, whether they were Republican Bob Hope or hipster Lenny Bruce, is that Shecky Greene was the wildest of them all. The craziest of them all. Most importantly - the funniest of them all.

Ray Bowman and Billy Kirkpatrick, who began boosting together as teenagers, were arrested only twice during their prolific partnership. The first time was for stealing 38 records from a K-Mart in 1974. The second arrest came in 1997. In between, Bowman and Kirkpatrick robbed 27 banks, including the single biggest haul in United States history: $4,461,681 from the Seafirst Bank in suburban Tacoma.

They are the most celebrated in the U.S. military. But hidden behind the heroic narratives is a darker, more troubling story of “revenge ops,” unjustified killings, mutilations, and other atrocities.

On House Xtravaganza and the life and death of its house mother Angie Xtravaganza, one of the stars of the documentary Paris is Burning, which brought vogueing and New York City’s transgendered ball culture into the spotlight.

COBOL is a coding language older than Weird Al Yankovic. The people who know how to use it are often just as old. It underpins the entire financial system. And it can’t be removed. How a computer language controls the financial life of the world.

“Peril is generational for black people in America—and incarceration is our current mechanism for ensuring that the peril continues.”

Beyond the fact that he lacked a pulse, little is known about the man found on an Adelaide beach in 1948.

Computer scientist tycoon Robert Mercer is at the heart of a shockingly well-funded propaganda network.

Amid an historic glut the cheese market, a secretive, government-sponsored entity is putting the stuff anywhere it can.

Bruce Fleming is known for being a chauvinistic, egoistic loudmouth–but firing him has been a lot harder than the Pentagon thought.

He planned to write a memoir, The Life of a Migrant. Its central thesis: The American Dream is a lie.

Is a well-received work of William Faulkner scholarship a hoax?

Is being a war correspondent worth the risk?

Is the anonymous, reclusive inventor of Bitcoin this 64-year-old man in Los Angeles?

“The most important fast food restaurant in America is a radical burger joint in Watts.”