What it’s like to be a first responder amid the rise of synthetic marijuana.

She was an overnight YouTube success. Then she tried to make a TV show.

The former governor of Massachusetts wants to remove the stigma from electric shock treatments. They saved Kitty’s life.

Susan Hawk was the first woman elected as Dallas County district attorney. She also suffers from depression.

The possibilities and limits of investigative reporting.

Twenty years ago, Brian Peixoto was convicted of killing his girlfriend’s 3-year-old son. But is he innocent?

Private planes, caviar lunches and Little League.

As a child, Hugo Lucitante was brought to America from a tiny jungle village in Ecuador. His heart’s still back home.

The young people fighting for democracy will be back.

A man’s love of pigeons leads him to build a Ponzi scheme out of birds.

She’s 80 now, working 13 hour days, and still won’t take so much as a reporter’s hand to cross the stream.

How one community is struggling to understand and respond to a cluster of suicides.

A gender studies professor, diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, decides to take control of her death.

A profile of Jim Henson before the release of the first Muppet movie.

A suburban dad. A fictional television blowhard. And now a political money launderer. How one funny guy became three.

Lessons learned about white-collar crime from an economist turned bagel salesman whose business relied entirely on the honor system.

On the difficult challenges faced by an auteur in Nigeria’s burgeoning Nollywood film economy.

A profile of Suge Knight, 29 and the C.E.O. of Death Row Records, before the deaths of Tupac and Notorious B.I.G.

Inside a small town revived by an influx of immigrants and then destroyed by a Homeland Security raid.

Greg Ousley killed his parents and has been locked up for nineteen years.

Is that enough?

How the daily e-mail from Mike Allen, Politico’s star reporter, has become a morning ritual for Washington’s elite.

Both the Chinese government and private matchmakers are laboring to unite people who lost spouses and children in the earthquake.

On his journey from phenom to champion to wannabe rock star to Emmy-winning commentator, John McEnroe hasn’t changed much.

Inside the real lives of people who came early to intentionally provoking, confusing, and generally screwing with strangers online.

Brian Hickey, a journalist who was induced into a coma after being left for dead following a hit and run accident, reports the story of his recovery.