A journey into the 1950s.

In April 2016, eight family members were slain in their homes in Ohio. Nine months later, the killer or killers are still on the loose, and the town has all but forgotten the crimes.

Twenty-two years in, E-40 has extended his reign over the Bay Area rap landscape by returning to “making music the way he did back in the late ’80s: completely independently, selling his raps more or less directly to his fans.”

On life as a police patrolman.

How the fashion industry collapsed.

What it’s like to be Enzyte’s “Smiling Bob,” and other tales of acting as a product’s public face.

A community says its children are being targeted by a group of pedophiles. But did widespread sexual abuse actually take place?

On Ephemerisle, a “floating festival of radical self-reliance,” and other attempts at creating an island utopia.

A profile of Elizabeth Gilbert, whose bestselling memoir may have sunk her literary career.

A battle against an invasive breed of ants has begun in Texas. It also might be over already.

A profile of 21-year-old Dan Cates, who made $5.5 million playing 145,215 hands in 2010.

In 1991, Frank Sterling confessed to a crime he didn’t commit. His story highlights a common – and controversial – method of police interrogation.

What happened when one of San Francisco’s most notorious underworld bosses tried to go clean.

She was not just a poet, she was an “event” in American literature all by herself.

America’s biggest for-profit foster care agency has a history of abuse, neglect, and even deaths to account for.

A mission in Baghdad to let a photojournalist get a shot of an insurgent corpse ends up getting a Marine killed.

On China’s modern-day Communist Party and why foundational myths can never be shed.

A veteran black Metro columnist, adrift in a rapidly shifting D.C., rankles an incoming generation of gentrificationists.

A Washington tribe expelled 306 of its members. They’re not going quietly.

A tour of a nonprofit that collects, warehouses, and donates perfectly good stuff hospitals throw away, from anesthesia machines to unopened surgical tools.

A statewide network of schools for disabled students has trapped black children in neglect and isolation.

More than 250 people have died since 2011 taking pictures of themselves in dangerous locations.

An interview with F. Lee Bailey about his 60 years of celebrity trials.

Medical examiners provide crucial insights into public health and safety. What happens when we don’t have enough of them?

In 1989, USC had a depth chart of a dozen linebackers. Five have died, each before age 50.