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

Finding the thread of depression in the personal history of a friend’s suicide.

It’s the “City of the Big Automobile,” raw and beautiful at once.

Tracing the 3,339 miles the Canadian ran in 1980, on one good leg and one prosthetic limb.

The diary of a Scranton, PA National Guardsmen tasked with guarding the highest profile prisoner in U.S history: a surprisingly amiable Saddam Hussein.

The story of Nate Fleming—walk-on point guard at Oklahoma State, fan favorite, golden child—and the 2001 plane crash that took his life.

From the Greeks to George Lucas, 2,200 years of failure.

On the man who has turned the grunt work of packing into a social media phenomenon.

How two high school wrestling teammates ended up on opposites side of the law during Miami’s cocaine wars.

How modern slot machines develop a nearly unbreakable hold on the brain, leading around one in five pathological gamblers to attempt suicide.

Isaiah Wall wants to get his life on track. But first, he’s gotta buy drugs for the police.

Mapping the global spread of antigay ideology.

Flashbacks from the life of Aaron Hernandez from the person who knew him best, his older brother Jonathan.

The story of a school shooting in Townville, S.C. and what happened to the first-graders who saw it all happen.

The Syrian refugee said his name was Paul, and that he was 16 years old. The truth was much more complicated.

An Afghanistan love story.

How a 20-year-old from the land of fake news tricked Martina Navratilova, Serena Williams, and the BBC.

On photographer Garry Winogrand and the unedited archive of more than half a million exposures he left behind.

A love letter and the jacked up emotions of reality TV.

Most of the fish we eat die by asphyxiation. But there’s a better way, both for the fish and those who eat them.

On the cusp of delivery, a mother-to-be recounts the anxiety-laden path to parenthood.

Every month, thousands of deportees from the United States and hundreds of asylum-seekers from around the world arrive in Tijuana. Many never leave.

A comprehensive history of the case against the Menendez brothers, built primarily on secret audio recording made by their self-promoting therapist.

How one man’s imagined discovery of a sex-trafficking camp in the Sonoran Desert gained life online — and in the real world.

A Dutch gallerist made thousands of forgeries and passed them off as the work of real artists. When he was caught, a new con began.