A brutal custody battle raises questions about who has a right to rear a child and what the legal meaning of a family should be.

A profile of Seth Moulton, the junior congressman from Massachusetts.

The legendary stuntman launches a new phase of his expansive career.

Pete Philo had a successful NBA career as a scout for the Pacers, Timberwolves, and Mavericks. He got all those jobs after being convicted of raping a teenager.

After Brexit, the obsessions of Jake Fiennes could change how Britain uses its land.

Inside the surreal and lucrative two-sided marketplace of mediocre famous people.

A trip to one of America’s quietest places and the guy who has dedicated his life to keeping it that way.

Kurtis Minder finds the cat-and-mouse energy of outsmarting criminal syndicates deeply satisfying.

The Jackass takes stock of a surprisingly long, hilariously painful, and unusually influential career.

As it scrambled to compete, the tech company cut tens of thousands of U.S. workers, hitting its most senior employees hardest and flouting rules against age bias.

It took only a handful of people to wrongly convict Ed Ates of murder. It took an army to free him from prison. Now comes the hard part.

The story of Jim Olson and his Tumor Paint dream.

On Leon Botstein and the future of Bard College, which he has run for four decades.

The diarist and photographer Peter Beard, known both for his series documenting a mass elephant starvation and for discovering the supermodel Iman on a Nairobi street, reflects on his life of “drugs, debt, and beautiful women” while recovering from being trampled by an elephant.

Boris Yeltsin’s right-hand man tells the inside story of the 1991 coup that killed glasnost:

"That scum!" Boris Yeltsin fumed. "It's a coup. We can't let them get away with it."

Why it took more than a decade for the posthumous pardon of Tim Cole, even after another inmate confessed to the brutal crime that put Cole away.

Tabloid newspapers were caught hacking into the voicemails of Prince William and Prince Harry. One reporter was arrested - but an investigation shows the eavesdropping was far more elaborate and widespread.

On the relative plausibility of impossible beings.

He was 8 years old, and the signs of abuse were obvious. Yet time and again, caseworkers from child-protective services failed to help him.

Ankle bracelets are promoted as a humane alternative to jail. But private companies charge defendants hundreds of dollars a month to wear the surveillance devices. If people can’t pay, they may end up behind bars.

The supply chains of the cocaine industry did not falter even during a worldwide shutdown.

As more homicide cases go unsolved, the backlog of unsolved murders grows and serial killers are free to kill again. Too few police departments are effectively deploying their resources to stop them.

How a Chinese national, with the help of a suspected spy, disappeared with laptops and hard drives that may have contained sensitive information from the Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center.