A community says its children are being targeted by a group of pedophiles. But did widespread sexual abuse actually take place?

“Four mornings a week Murray Kempton, the Huckleberry Finn of American journalism, climbs onto his bicycle and pedals out into the world in search of what may be there. For more than thirty years he has been finding things other writers have not even thought to look for, and he has done so with a compelling humanity that is rare not just in his profession but in the human race as well. I have followed him as he made his regular rounds, and I have eaten at his table, and I am not all that certain that he is not the greatest man I have ever met.”

A profile of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

An 8th-generation Louisvillian on the Kentucky Derby, bourbon and the history of his hometown.

The dangerous work of harvesting your food.

Women who left their careers to be stay-at-home mothers reflect on the decision ten years later.

Why a former Anonymous spokesperson was arrested for, among other things, copying and pasting a link.

The quiet life of Brigette Höss, 80, whose father ran Auschwitz.

What did soccer have to do with two brutal murders after a pickup game?

An audacious plan to create a new energy source could save the planet from catastrophe. But time is running out.

How good is Julian Newman, really?

A Chicago housing project resident reports intruders breaking into her apartment through a medicine cabinet. Days later, she’s found dead.

A student fires three shots during a sixth period social studies class. “Then nothing happened, and that’s a problem.”

Five prostitutes disappear. Bodies turn up on a Long Island beach. On the women lost, and the families left behind.

After the United States demanded the extradition of a drug lord, a bloodletting ensued.

On Mike Powell, a Chicago-area high school wrestling coach who hasn’t allowed a life-threatening illness to interrupt his life’s work.

A report from the trial of Ivan Demjanjuk—a.k.a. “The Last Nazi”—who died on March 17.

On the road with three high school show choirs and a dream.

What is the sickness that leads inhabitants to sleep for days?

What happened when one of San Francisco’s most notorious underworld bosses tried to go clean.

The brains behind the uncannily accurate Des Moines Register poll.

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

Centralia, Pennsylvania, used to be a place with kids and schools and churches and houses. Then the ground caught on fire.

While fleeing their Mali stronghold, al-Qaida left behind documents describing not how to terrorize a population, but how to govern.