How a Grieving Father Is Uncovering Mexico’s Mass Graves
Victims of Mexico’s drug violence often end up in unmarked graves. This man set out to find them.
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The Unsatisfying Truth About Hateful Online Rhetoric and Violence
Two angry men submerged themselves in the far-right internet. One committed murder. The other walked away. Why?
His Only Living Boy
Roger Stringer testified against his son Zac in the fatal shooting that killed his younger child. Now he believes Remington’s defective rifle is to blame.
Ghosts of Highway 20
Women vanished along a stretch of Oregon highway. One man might be responsible for it all.
The Innocent Man
The decades-long saga of Michael Morton, who was wrongfully convicted of killing his wife.
‘Why Did You Do This?’
His brother confessed to gunning down 17 people in Parkland. But he’s the only family Zach Cruz has left.
The Desperado
The story of Edward Averill, a blind man with one foot who robbed a bank in Austin, Texas.
The Amateur Sleuth Who Searched for a Body—and Found One
When authorities fail families, Lissa Yellowbird-Chase steps in.
How Private Equity Is Turning Public Prisons Into Big Profits
Food. Phone calls. Medical care. Transport. Even in public prisons, “piecemeal privatization” is transforming incarceration in America.
Michael Cohen’s Last Days of Freedom
The President’s former lawyer, and the fall guy in his web of misconduct, looks like a victim as well as a perpetrator.
My Cousin Was My Hero. Until the Day He Tried to Kill Me.
A confrontation with masculinity gone awry.
Lost in the Jihad
The case against “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh.
Outlaw Country
Klamath Country, Oregon, is the perfect place to disappear–and also a very dangerous place when someone is threatening your life.
What Bullets Do to Bodies
“The gun debate would change in an instant if Americans witnessed the horrors that trauma surgeons confront everyday.”
How Facebook Bought a Police Force
Hundreds of pages of documents obtained by Motherboard show how Facebook is using the Menlo Park Police Department to reshape the city.
How to Sell Drugs and Influence Everyone on Instagram
The true tale of a bodybuilder turned social media influencer who built an illicit empire.
When a Psychic Reading Costs You $740,000
How much would you pay to remove a curse on your family?
The Rise and Fall of the Cincinnati Boner King
A jailhouse interview with Steve Washak, who made millions selling “natural male enhancement” pills.
The Highland Park Drug Ring
How did a mother of 10 and a Plano cop wind up pushing pills in the Park Cities?
Nine American Mormons Died in a Brutal Ambush in Mexico
Was the attack outside of the LeBaron compound really by a cartel?
A Family Matter
Each year, California’s child protective services agencies remove thousands of kids from their homes. The story of how some parents decided to fight back.
Inside eBay’s Cockroach Cult
How eBay’s Global Security and Resiliency team ran a rogue campaign to terrorize a blogger couple with insects, pornography and pizza.
The Store That Called the Cops on George Floyd
A teenage clerk dialed 911. How should the brothers who own CUP Foods pay for what happened next?
“It’s the Most Outrageous Thing I’ve Ever Seen. It Makes No Sense.”
DNA evidence proved Lydell Grant’s innocence. So why won’t the state’s highest criminal court exonerate him?
Death in Clubland
When model Kimberly Fattorini died after a night out in Hollywood, everyone assumed she’d accidentally overdosed. But there was more to the story.
