Exploring the vast underground world of New York City with three of the people who know it best.

On Baylor’s freshman basketball star Perry Jones and how the new era of one-season careers has changed the landscape of college basketball.

A study of the Mississippi River, its history, and efforts by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to hold it in place.

A profile of Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Body and The 4-Hour Workweek.

On the battle between Shaquille O’Neal and his former IT guy, who’s in control of much of O’Neal’s archived (and often damning) correspondence.

The story of a deadly collision on the D.C. Metro, told from surviving passengers’ point of view.

On the obsession with the sexual and social habits of American teenage girls.

The bloody reign of Rodrigo Duterte, who was elected President of the Phillipines in May.

After a cop walks into his station and confesses to murder, an investigation reveals the toll of lethal force on both sides of the gun.

Hundreds of pages of documents obtained by Motherboard show how Facebook is using the Menlo Park Police Department to reshape the city.

Many young South Koreans were beginning to live in isolation years before the rest of the world joined them.

Each year, California’s child protective services agencies remove thousands of kids from their homes. The story of how some parents decided to fight back.

An ambitious new system will track scores of species from space—shedding light, scientists hope, on the lingering mysteries of animal movement.

Death on America’s racetracks:

At 2:11 p.m., as two ambulances waited with motors running, 10 horses burst from the starting gate at Ruidoso Downs Race Track 6,900 feet up in New Mexico’s Sacramento Mountains.

Nineteen seconds later, under a brilliant blue sky, a national champion jockey named Jacky Martin lay sprawled in the furrowed dirt just past the finish line, paralyzed, his neck broken in three places. On the ground next to him, his frightened horse, leg broken and chest heaving, was minutes away from being euthanized on the track. For finishing fourth on this early September day last year, Jacky Martin got about $60 and possibly a lifetime tethered to a respirator.

On nostalgia for Communism.

The dark and dangerous world of extreme cavers.

The business of being Pitbull.

A trip to the capital of Yemen.

The story of one Tibetan’s protest.

On the mountain lions of Los Angeles.

On the criminalization of nondisclosure.

The art of shaping a magazine article.

The perilous attraction of owning exotic pets.

The odyssey of trying to have an illegal abortion 1962.

The life of an A-list Hollywood stylist.