The death of an infant lands his father on death row in Louisiana.

The anonymous donations that helped fund new IUDs.

“Super tunnels” are a speciality of the Sinaloa drug cartel – and its leader, El Chapo.

On the 1915 hanging of Leo Frank in Marietta, Georgia.

An oral history of Gucci Mane’s many rises and falls.

On the wives of whalers and their dildos.

On Republican consultant John Weaver and the art of political seduction.

A profile of the UFC fighter after her first loss.

Sundays at Hillsong, the church that saved Justin Bieber.

Life and death with the young and radicalized.

“Fuck everything, I thought. Bring on the cascading interventions. And they came.”

The flawed data on safety equipment.

On the lawyers who defend Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Jared Loughner and Whitey Bulger.

A leading Guantanamo interrogator was once a Chicago police detective accused of police brutality.

The origins of Lagunitas are laced with THC.

The hopes, dreams and failures of Nigeria’s commercial capital.

The informal network of volunteers that keep abortion access open in Texas.

Inside the abusive “three-quarter house” industry that serves addicts.

Alanis Morissette, before the making of Jagged Little Pill.

Inside the world of targeted marketing.

The story of Southwest Airlines.

On the Daily Mail’s dominance of England.

An anonymous essay on time spent in “protective custody” at a Nazi camp.

How the golfer hasn’t changed, post-scandal.

Try as his publicity squad might, it's tough to maintain—or now restore—the Tiger Image when former insiders sprout secret-sharing campaigns. "It's always a divorce," David Feherty, longtime commentator and golf-gab-show host, told me recently. "Tiger expects the curtains to remain drawn, and when somebody opens them, it pisses him off. He has appeared superhuman for so long, and it's like he feels the need to perpetuate that myth."

On the possibility of “fluid intelligence.”