Tavi Gevinson talks.

The dark world of online murder markets.

On the origins of Michael Jordan.

How the “Apple of Pot” collapsed.

The search for Syrian war criminals in Europe.

Using several email addresses and a lot of exclamation points, teenager Jonathan Lebed worked finance message boards in the morning before school and made almost a million bucks. Then he made the head of the S.E.C. look like a fool.

The search for Guns N’ Roses’ elusive guitarist.

From Southie to Santa Monica, a gangster romance on the run.

How a Mossad agent’s desperate bid to jumpstart his career led to the exposure of two top Hezbollah plants.

Will LaFever never felt right in the world. So he took to the Utah desert, barely making it out alive.

“Remember why we’re here: to empower the child. If you can’t handle it, keep your shades on.”

How the former CEO of McKinsey, who was indicted in the largest insider trading case in United States history, got played.

On the trail of Austin Tice and the late James Foley, freelance journalists who were kidnapped in Syria in 2012.

The railroad foreman’s brain was pierced by a tamping iron. He lived to tell the tale.

What the neighborhood of Higher Blackley in Manchester says about “one of the least understood and most discriminated-against groups in society.”

How modernity – and an eruption of violence – changed “the most remote inhabited island on the Atlantic seaboard.”

Each year, thousands of people pay to play eighteen holes of golf at Angola, “the largest maximum-security prison in the country.”

The rise of One Direction fanfiction that imagines the band members in relationships – with each other.

Behind the tabloid story of the “murder orphan” in Queens.

A “crude table-tennis arcade game” called Pong and the birth of the video game industry.

On the culture of misogyny and abuse at one of the nation’s largest megachurches.

We know the country music pioneer died New Year’s Eve, 1953. But how?

A self-published author of pick-up guides visits the “pacifist nanny state” of Denmark and finds the social safety interferes with his seduction strategies.

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

The mysterious death of Alfred Wright in the shadow of a town’s history of racial violence.