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.”

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.

A shipping container spewing radiation appears mysteriously at an Italian port, prompting a larger look at the anonymous world of international shipping.

"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."

“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.”

Maine adopted Kenyan runner Moninda Marube as a symbol of human trafficking’s invisible casualties. But a close look at his case raises hard questions — and illustrates the challenge of investigating and prosecuting trafficking crimes.

Hua Qu is fighting to save her husband — one of at least seven U.S. captives in the Islamic Republic being used as pawns in a nearly 40-year secret history of hostage taking.

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.

The growth of an immersive universe that is “part game and part soap opera and part shadow economy.”

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

An analysis of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and Cotton Tenants, the original manuscript.

The story of a high school quarterback’s descent into madness, and its tragic end.

A letter to his unborn son about the wonders of being an only child.