How agents took down Mexico’s most vicious drug cartel and, in the process, gave El Chapo the opportunity to create an empire.

Rabbi Barry Freundel said he would help dozens of women convert to Judaism. In the process, he secretly videotaped them naked.

After his daughter died in a terrorist attack, Stephen Flatow won an unprecedented judgment against her killers. Then he had to figure out how to actually collect.

Ten stories on guns, ranging from competitive shooting, to girl gangs in Chicago, to the sisters and mothers of mass shooting victims.

In his own final days, a Right to Die activist tells the story of his secret, illegal assisted-suicide service.

Five of the sixteen women speak.

After 13 years of war, the United States has helped create a nation ruled by drug lords.

How Facebook ‘likes’ landed Jelani Henry in Rikers.

How an elite anti-narcotics task force became the most brazen drug thieves on the Texas border.

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

America’s biggest for-profit foster care agency has a history of abuse, neglect, and even deaths to account for.

The everyday violence of some urban neighburhoods in America takes its own emotional toll.

A correspondence school for writers turns out to be a sham. This piece forced it into bankruptcy.

Tommy Gilbert seemed like your average Beekman Place ne’er-do-well son—until his dad turned up dead.

Beatrice Munyenyezi told her New Hampshire neighbors that she was refugee from the Rwandan genocide. Half of that was true.

The rise of the Peoples Temple through the lens of an earlier group: Father Divine’s Peace Mission.

It took a desperate screenwriter to find Max Mermelstein, Miami’s former coke overlord, after twenty-five years in hiding.

[Part 1 of 2] The story behind this spring’s spate of retributive murders in Southwest D.C.

How $100 million in diamonds, gold, and jewelry disappeared from Antwerp Diamond Center’s super-secure vault.

An interview with an ex-CIA agent who is a world expert on the history of car bombing.

Russian serial killer Alexander Pichushkin was so prolific that even he doesn’t know how many he killed.

The “Shaggy Defense,” the “Little Man Defense,” and more—live from R. Kelly’s 2008 child pornography trial.

How the bulk of the cocaine entering the U.S. ends up cut with a cattle dewormer.

A young girl is reported missing. The detective assigned to her case quickly discovers she’s been gone for years. The story of his search for justice.

Colombian traffickers have a new smuggling method of choice: specially designed submarines capable of carrying 10 tons of cocaine and covering 2,000 miles without refueling.