A professor of sociology at Columbia reckons with her father’s relationship with Adolf Eichmann.

For decades a group of radical Catholics, many of them nuns, have been keeping up the good fight against nuclear weapons.

The author visits City of Refuge in Pahokee, Florida, a community of more than 100 registered sex offenders.

The complicated case of Brigitte Harris, who, after years of abuse, accidentally killed her father by cutting off his penis.

“Being Justin Bieber means having an endless number of T-shirts to destroy.” A profile of the pop star just after his 18th birthday.

The life of a modern-day indentured servant involves a truck, mountains of debt, and moving goods for America’s biggest retailers.

Booker winner Howard Jacobson on the bumper crop of sex worker memoirs and what they say about our understanding of paid sex.

How a night of drunken mischief led to the death of a rare endangered fish and a rare prosecution.

A profile of Erik Prince, then the CEO of America’s largest and most controversial mercenary force, Blackwater, who happened to be a C.I.A. agent.

After decades of mismanaging its nuclear waste, the US Department of Energy wrestles with its toxic legacy.

The postscript of a viral hit.

A profile of the man who ran Jeb Bush’s $118 million super-PAC as he cleans out his office. Had Murphy been legally allowed to talk to the candidate during the election, here’s what he would have said: “What the fuck were we thinking?”

“She has no theories, for example, to explain why she, of all people, felt unburdened by the unspoken rules marking certain subjects off limits for children, or why, for that matter, she has that particular gift, that ability to recall the emotional experiences of adolescence, the confusion, the longing, the rivalries — the memories, in other words, that most of us try to bury as quickly and deeply as we can.”

The story of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter’s exoneration.

A profile of Jesselyn Radack, who represents whistleblowers.

In the aftermath of rape, a transition from prey to predator.

On the “black widow” of Keller, Texas.

In the U.S. military, more than half of rape victims are men.

The murder of a West Virginia teenager by her two best friends.

Magicians, mafiosos, a missing painting and the heist of a lifetime.

An oral history of the day Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot.

Why the integration of a South African university didn’t last.

The life and death of Pat Tillman.

Two brothers dreamed of baseball stardom. One would end up killing the other.

How Wall Street got addicted to trading at the speed of light.