How a convicted sexual predator emptied the bank accounts and ruined the lives of several women from behind bars.

In the early ’80s, underground chemists cooked up synthetic versions of heroin that took over the market in California—and left young users with symptoms typically associated with Parkinson’s.

How Christopher Hitchens, a former socialist, became one of the most vigorous defenders of the war in Iraq.

Not only is the penny useless, it costs the U.S. Treasury $50 million per year. So why is it still around?

A profile of Anas Aremeyaw, an investigative journalist in Ghana who’s willing to do anything–and pose as anyone–to get the story.

A profile of Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson, published at the height of the controversy.

A working definition of ‘net neutrality’, a bestiary of the major players, and why the issue isn’t a cut and dry case of good vs. evil.

The city’s radical pro-democracy movement faces a stiff test from Mainland China.

The answer may lie with the country’s powerful security agencies.

Last November, A.J. Delgado played a vital role in the presidential campaign. Then everything fell apart.

What the Toronto Police found was even worse than they’d expected.

A thirty-year-old Tom Petty on the brink of Damn the Torpedoes.

A 42,000-word, 3-continent spanning “hacker tourist” account of the laying of the (then) longest wire on earth.

The first female Asian-American playwright on Broadway takes aim at identity and watches the audience squirm.

Inside Arnold’s manic, occasionally dishonest quest to find tapes of Trump using slurs on the set of The Apprentice.

An oral history of the women who transformed Rolling Stone in the mid-70s.

The Venezuelan maestro of the Los Angeles Philharmonic conjures joy in difficult times.

With wildfires, heat waves, and rising sea levels, large tracts of the earth are at risk of becoming uninhabitable.

The inside story of death and survival as the Carr Fire’s tornado of flames stormed Redding—and changed firefighting in a warming California.

A profile of Harmony Korine, the creator of Kids, Spring Breakers, and The Beach Bum.

How the border patrol chases have spun out of control, with deadly consequence.

What’s at stake in the fight over development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge? A caribou herd, and a culture that relies on it.

How the first Williams sister changed the course of women’s tennis.

The untold story of Patriots owner Robert Kraft’s two visits to the Orchids of Asia Day Spa.

How a ferry disaster exposed the corruption devastating Iraq.