What does satire do? What should we expect of it? Is it crucial to Western culture that we be free to produce it?

The story of H.H. Holmes, America’s first serial killer.

The sole survivor of a 1966 shipwreck tells his tale.

The tale of the first conviction overturned on faulty arson science.

The rise and fall of the “fact crime magazine.”

A profile of the most powerful woman in the world.

A profile of the talk queen.

The daily life of Saddam Hussein.

A journey to the wildest edge of the spa industry.

How a missionary group covered up decades of sexual abuse.

A profile of a pig.

The history of a couch.

The story of one man’s encounter with fate.

What’s the future of NYC real estate?

The writer, deaf since birth, on the intricacies of reading lips.

She calls claiming to be Amy Pascal, Kathleen Kennedy, or some other powerful woman in entertainment. She knows personal details about her mark as well as the woman she is impersonating.

She offers work, then sends them—photographers, make-up artists, soldiers—around the world to bilk them out of modest amounts of cash.

Throughout 2015 and 2016, amid a series of conversations I had socially with gay and bisexual men about chemsex, new, darker elements to this scene began to emerge; details from unconnected participants that mirrored each other – the same incidents, the same crimes, sometimes even the same culprits. Together they formed a picture: that beneath the surface reports about chemsex – the endless hedonism, the irresistibly intense sex – there is a much blacker sea, unmapped.

On 30 years of Long Island politics.

Was one of Detroit’s most notorious criminals also one of the FBI’s most valuable informants?

Jerold Haas was on the brink of blockchain riches. Then his body was found in the woods of southern Ohio.

One man’s choice to stand alone. The story of race, politics, and power in baseball.

How the truth still eludes the investigation of the killing of four boys in Joypur, which sparked a bloody riot and massive displacement.

At work with the scientists standing on the precipice of a grand unified theory of the universe. Or failure.

The rise of an amazing optical corporation and the future of our eyes.

Heather Morris’s bestselling novels ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ and ‘Cilka’s Journey’, and the problem of truth in historical fiction.