In South Carolina, civil forfeiture targets black people’s money most of all, exclusive investigative data shows.

How a bunch of Canadian hipsters wound up smuggling cocaine (and getting caught).

The difficult final year of a much-loved and legendarily difficult woman.

What could the political effects be of a media that actually served working-class Americans?

A pilot program in Mississippi offers a glimpse of the possibilities.

A profile of the actor, who died yesterday at age 43.

An interview with the creator and star of “I May Destroy You.”

Forget about the ticks. A pattern of harm follows “Lyme-literate medical doctors.”

Private executioners paid in cash. Middle-of-the-night killings. False or incomplete justifications.

Inside the race to eliminate one of nature’s biggest threats.

I've grown, over the last few months, the beginnings of concerned; he's started to suffer bouts of malaise. Nothing too regular, or too terrible: mild stomach aches, sore joints, general lethargy. In anyone else, it could be anything, etc. In Chad, I grow attuned to the slightest variation in temperature, to the distracted look behind his eyes when food isn't sitting with him.

"I don't know if I was as angry as much as I was misunderstood.  A lot of the things we did contained a lot of humor that went over people's heads."

Members of the multiplicity community say they are many different people–sometimes so many they think of themselves as a city–all existing within one body.

“They cruise the city in chauffeured cars, blasting rap, selling pot to classmates. How some of New York’s richest kids joined forces with some of its poorest.”

But the more that I tried to remind myself of the various ways in which I did, in fact, seem to have a body that was moving, with a heart that pumped blood, the more agitated I became. Being dead butted up against the so-called evidence of being alive, and so I grew to avoid that evidence because proof was not a comfort; instead, it pointed to my insanity.

An investigation into slavery in Mauritania:

An estimated 10% to 20% of Mauritania’s 3.4 million people are enslaved — in “real slavery,” according to the United Nations’ special rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, Gulnara Shahinian. If that’s not unbelievable enough, consider that Mauritania was the last country in the world to abolish slavery. That happened in 1981, nearly 120 years after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in the United States. It wasn’t until five years ago, in 2007, that Mauritania passed a law that criminalized the act of owning another person. So far, only one case has been successfully prosecuted.

THEY SAY YOU never hear the one that hits you. That's true of bullets, because, if you hear them, they are already past. But your correspondent heard the last shell that hit this hotel. He heard it start from the battery, then come with a whistling incommg roar like a subway train to crash against the cornice and shower the room with broken glass and plaster. And while the glass still tinkled down and you listened for the next one to start, you realized that now finally you were back in Madrid.

The author of I Know What You Did Last Summer investigates her own daughter’s unsolved murder.

Inside the collapse of TelexFree, an alleged $1 billion pyramid scheme that duped investors worldwide.

How the self-proclaimed “inventor of all things streaming” went from dot-com millionaire to crime ring accomplice.

A Liberian road trip with the creator of MTV, Ralph Reed and a reformed cannibal named General Butt Naked.

A profile of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

In a Turkish hotel, veterans of the Libyan Revolution meet with their fractured Syrian counterparts to transfer know-how and heavy weaponry.

The dangerous work of harvesting your food.