Gabrielle Williams is nine years old. She weighs just 12 pounds. The mystery of “syndrome x” and the girls who never age.

On the writer’s new book and tell-all style.

The profile of a 34-year-old woman named Charity Johnson who tricked people all over the country into believing she was still in high school.

A judge on the history and injustice of the plea bargain in America.

In the 1970s, Chile was on the verge of developing sophisticated technology to monitor its economy. Then America intervened.

Thousands of new warehouse jobs were supposed to help lift a struggling British economy. Instead, employees started equating the work with “being in a slave camp.”

Marketing research,the pre-Facebook history of ‘likeability,’ and why there will never be a ‘dislike’ button.

On the lesbian separatists of the 1970s, who “created a shadow society devoted to living in an alternate, penisless reality.”

An interview with Murphy at the apex of his power, just before the release of Harlem Nights.

On Finland, the country most afraid of Russia.

The life of the former defensive tackle, who was paralyzed during a kickoff return.

After his father died in an Airbnb rental, the writer investigates what the company can do to improve safety.

A profile of Killer Mike, the self-described “gangsta rap suburban father” whose speech about Ferguson went viral last fall.

Can we be convinced that healthy food is delicious? On the new science of neurogastronomy and why we eat what we eat.

There are more than 22,000 homeless children in New York, the highest number since the Great Depression. This is one of their stories.

The rocky career and enduring appeal of country legend Charlie Rich, “the missing link between Elvis Presley and Ray Charles.”

The rise of an expensive, experimental stem-cell treatment in China and the medical tourism it attracts.

How the next generation of Indian women could break the country’s cycle of early motherhood and forced marriage.

On tragedy, mythology, and the spectacular crash of the Spider-Man musical and its creator, Julie Taymor.

What happened when the U.S. Military decided to take its lead from America’s biggest brands.

A ride-along with the guys tasked with demolishing the city’s 10,000 “abandoned, godforsaken homes.”

John Walker Lindh’s father on why his son is an innocent victim of the War on Terror.

On the culture of plastic surgery in Los Angeles, and how the reporter’s life changed when she got a pair of fake boobs.

Once the pirates were in control of the Lynn Rival, they ransacked it, flinging open cupboards, eating all of the Chandlers’ cookies and stealing their money, watches, rings, electronics, their satellite phone and clothes. There were now 10 men; two more pirates had scampered onboard to join the others. After showering and draining the Chandlers’ entire supply of fresh water, they started trying on outfits. A broad-shouldered buccaneer named Buggas, who appeared to be the boss, was especially fond of their waterproof trousers, parading up and down the deck wearing them, while some of the other pirates strutted around in Rachel’s brightly colored pants and blouses.

Alarmingly sophisticated imitations of American currency have turned up all over the world and the false-paper trail leads to North Korea.