Big banks entrusted money to an armored truck company GardaWorld. It secretly lost track of millions.

A conversation with one of Russia’s “little green men”: a 24-year-old recruited to fight in Eastern Ukraine.

Working within Andalusia’s impoverished farming communities, a ragtag pair of longtime union leaders have been leading raids on local supermarkets.

An essay on Jimmy Savile, British television and child sexual abuse.

After being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a 30-year-old woman loses most of her memory.

A family turns to murder to save one of their own.

Dr. Joel Dreyer was a respected psychiatrist. Then he took a sudden turn to a life of drug dealing. Medicine might be able to explain why.

A profile of Eugene Kaspersky, KGB-trained online security mogul.

Key and Peele try to make comedic sense of America’s confusions about race. Their secret? “Really, there’s no actual strategy.”

Thirty years ago, few people had ever heard of ADD. ‘Early onset depression’ might become a common diagnosis long before 2040.

One woman’s account of clandestine meetings, financial transactions, and legal pacts designed to hide an extramarital affair.

Hannah Upp keeps disappearing, forgetting her sense of self. Can she still be found?

A romance author accused her husband of poisoning her. Was it her wildest fiction yet?

Can face-to-face meetings between a victim and an abuser—a form of restorative justice—help a society overwhelmed with bad behavior?

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.