Without understanding the lingering illness that some patients experience, we can’t understand the pandemic.

The enduring career of the megastar no one really knows.

Oliver Stone wanted a hit—and the chance to put America’s most iconic dissident onscreen. The subject wanted veto power. The Russian lawyer wanted someone to option the novel he’d written. The American lawyer just wanted the whole insane project to go away. Somehow a film got made.

How the feds went after Thick Neck, Guilty, Stomper, Gunner, Lucky, Menace, and the rest of the Amernian mob in Los Angeles.

The political maneuvering behind the growth of massive consumer goods warehouses and the health hazards that often follow.

Walking the East Tennessee woods with a Carol, aka “The Forest Granny,” a woman who lives off the land.

Fifty years later, the men who stole priceless gems from the Museum of Natural History recall the crime.

The story of John Laroche, which led to Orleans’ The Orchid Thief, and tangentially, the film Adaptation.

From pinball prohibition in 1940s NYC to Dave & Buster’s, the rise and fall of the American arcade.

Spending time with the Tonya Harding Fan Club in the wake of the assault on Nancy Kerrigan.

Henry Luce and Time vs. Harold Ross and The New Yorker. What was at stake in the epic magazine rivalry of the 20th century?

Alumni report in secret on Delphian, the mysterious boarding school that Scientology built in the mountains of Oregon.

The dissolution of Brooklyn softcore skin-mag Jacques and the marriage of the couple that created it.

The night when Terry Thompson let his zoo-worthy collection of big animals, including lions and a bear, into the wilds of Zanesville, Ohio before shooting himself in the head.

Two sisters, heirs to the Bronfman fortune, may have blown $100 million supporting the cult-like group NXIVM.

A stroll through Tokyo’s Tsukiji, the world’s largest seafood market, and the mecca of the global sushi trade.

On Huck Finn, the book Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, and the evolution of language and race in America.

Two percent of humans can hear the Hum, a mysterious, low rumble in the distance. It might exist. It might be imaginary. It might be both.

The fight to extradite El Chapo.

We like to believe that the blame for wrongful convictions falls on individuals: the racist prosecutor, the crooked cop. It doesn’t always work that way.

Chipotle once fed the equivalent of the population of Philadelphia every day. Then the E. coli outbreak happened.

The actress Tilda Swinton found herself dissatisfied with the schools available for her twins. So she founded her own.

It was the failed dream of the heir to the Frank-o-Matic sausage-link machinery fortune.

Defensive end Shawn King was the 36th pick in the 1995 draft. His career with the Carolina Panthers didn’t turn out as planned.

Emma Perrier was deceived by an older man on the internet—and then she found love with the model whose photographs he had stolen.