Justin Alexander went searching for higher meaning. No one expected the quest to end in a search for his body.

The story of the 1944 German national soccer championship game.

The neurologist explores the mystery of hallucinations.

On the rise of witness intimidation in Baltimore.

The rise and fall of “America’s most exciting black scholar.”

A broke agent hustles on the extreme fringe of pro basketball.

“He is, as of this writing, the most mocked man in the world.”

A meditation on the “out-and-out confrontational confidence of the totally ignorant.”

On the legacy of Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

The Inglewood rapper has survived the death, deportation, and displacement of his family and friends.

One famous critic (Adler) takes another (Pauline Kael) to task for a collection of reviews that is “without Kael- or Simon-like exaggeration, not simply, jarringly, piece by piece, line by line, and without interruption, worthless.”

When computer science legend Jim Gray disappeared, his friends and colleagues – including Bill Gates and Larry Ellison – used every technological tool at their disposal to try to find him.

Eric Coomer had an election-security job at Dominion Voting Systems. He also had posted anti-Trump messages on Facebook. What happened next ruined his life.

The unlikely ascent of A.Q. Khan, the scientist who gave Pakistan the Bomb, and his suspicious fall from grace.

The profile of a crime syndicate which dominates the European cocaine trade.

The lives of the Indians who were swallowed in the Bhopal gas cloud, thirty years later.

The lonely death of a godfather of the conspiracy theory movement.

The beginnings of the best-selling video game, from a chapter of David Kushner’s new book on the subject.

The island of Borneo is the only home of the proboscis monkey, an endangered primate that is surprisingly resilient.

The remarkable stories of the nine other women in the Harvard Law class of ‘59.

Buddy Cianci, former Providence mayor and convicted felon, is running for the city’s top office. Again.

Searching for home at a cowboy poetry convention in Elko, Nevada.

Did A.Q. Khan sell nuclear secrets on the black market? The fame had unbalanced him. He was subjected to a degree of public acclaim rarely seen in the West—an extreme close to idol worship, which made him hungry for more. Money seems never to have been his obsession, but it did play a role.

On the complete corruption of Paul Bergin, a federal attorney turned high-priced defense lawyer now awaiting trial on a host of charges.

If Paul is guilty of half the things they say, he’d be the craziest, most evil lawyer in the history of the State of New Jersey. That is saying something.

A profile of Laura Poitras.