Inside the abusive practices of magazine-subscription sub-contractors.

The life of Antonio Zambrano-Montes, shot dead by the police in Washington state.

Bill Russell, race, and the NBA of the 1960s.

The case of the murdered real-estate legend and her enraged assistant.

The story of booze and Bangalore.

A profile of the mysterious and moderately intelligent Giant Pacific Octopus.

The rise and fall of The Exile, Russia’s angriest English-language newspaper.

Returning to the scenes of three famous deaths in Seattle.

"And far from the ivory towers of music academia, mostly on his blog, Elgar’s Enigma Theme Unmasked, Bob Padgett has emerged as perhaps the most prolific and dogged of all Enigma seekers. His solution, which has caught the attention of classical music scholars, lies at the bottom of a rabbit hole of anagrams, cryptography, the poet Longfellow, the composer Mendelssohn, the Shroud of Turin, and Jesus, all of which he believes he found hiding in plain sight in the music".

The double life of a KGB spy living in 1980s Manhattan.

Survivors of the Pulse nightclub shooting, nine months later.

Watching TV with the President the night before he fired James Comey.

The culture of juicing at the Mr. Olympia competition.

An interview with the mind behind Star Trek.

The life and death of OR4, the patriarch of Oregon’s reintroduced wolves.

After the relationship ended, the harassment began.

Conversations with the petroleum brotherhood in the UAE.

A Marine veteran of the Iraq War on battle and faith.

Marcus Hutchins stopped one of the most dangerous cyberattacks ever. Then the FBI arrested him.

Glory, grief, and the race for the Triple Crown.

On the ubiquity of forest fires.

Tracking stolen firearms through the black market, from gun store thefts to crime scenes.

What science can tell us about how other creatures experience the world.

At the world’s largest gathering of psychics and mediums, two brothers confront a painful secret.

YouTubers Myka and James Stauffer shared every step of their parenting journey. Except the last.