The Master of Spin Boldak
An undercover report on Afghanistan’s drug-smuggling border police that is now heavily used for intelligence training.
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An Officer and an Atrocity
The barbaric brutalization of Abner Louima and the tragic fate of a handful of flawed Brooklyn cops.
Free Fallin'
How skateboard legend Mark “Gator” Anthony was born again, first as a street preacher, and then as a rapist and murderer.
Guantanamo Bay: How the White House lost the fight to close it
Inside Obama’s most glaring reversal.
Shaken-Baby Syndrome Faces New Questions in Court
The history of – and recent controversy over – the diagnosis.
"He Never Had Nothing, and He Always Wanted Something."
A profile of lifelong thief and 13-time escapee Chris Gay, aka “Little Houdini.”
Inside the Gay Wing of L.A. Men's Central Jail
Spending time with the residents of K6G, the only gay wing in the entire American penal system.
A Tree Is Known By Its Fruit
The rise and murderous fall of the Harkey family, the scions of a pecan dynasty.
The Whole Haystack
The N.S.A. claims it needs access to all our phone records. But is that the best way to catch a terrorist?
'That's Not All!' Kevin Trudeau, The World’s Greatest Salesman, Makes One Last Pitch
A profile of the best-selling author, self-help guru and convicted felon.
The Wrong Way
Miriam Carey died at the hands of the Secret Service. Over a year later, her family has no real answers about what happened to her.
The Radical Humaneness of Norway's Halden Prison
The Scandinavians had an idea that seems wacky to Americans: make a prison safe and livable.
The Cousins Karamazov
David Simon and Richard Price, two of the greatest crime storytellers of our time, talk about their craft.
Operation Midnight Climax
How the CIA, under a program called MK-ULTRA, used a San Francisco apartment to dose johns with LSD.
Who is the Boy in the Box?
A fingerprint expert spends decades investigating the death of an unidentified boy found in the woods in 1957.
Blood on the Mountain
In 1981, Randall Smith murdered two hikers on the Appalachian Trail. Twenty-seven years later, he tried to do it again.
Kids in the Dark
A group of Long Island misfits with aspirations towards Satanic worship disappeared into the woods to take mescaline. One of them never came back.
The Great Taliban Jailbreak
On the escape of hundreds of insurgents from Kandahar’s Sarposa Prison through a tunnel dug from the outside, and an unlikely suspect: the jail’s former warden.
Confessions of a Non–Serial Killer
What happens when a complete stranger becomes convinced you’re the Zodiac killer.
"Is he coming? Is he? Oh God, I think he is."
The story of the Norway massacre, as told by the survivors.
Anthrax has hit Glasgow: the story of a desperate hunt for its source
Police and scientists investigate an outbreak.
A Man Walks Into a Bank
“What could possibly be funnier than depositing a perfectly ridiculous, obviously false, fake cheque?”
City of Fear
How PCC, once an inmate soccer team and now Brazil’s most notorious prison gang, coordinated seven days of riots throughout São Paulo using mobile phones.
Poor Little Rich Girls
Two sisters, heirs to the Bronfman fortune, may have blown $100 million supporting the cult-like group NXIVM.
My Favorite Teacher
Mr. Lindall was the only high school teacher who understood him. Then Mr. Lindall went to jail, and it was his turn to try to understand.
