How modern slot machines develop a nearly unbreakable hold on the brain, leading around one in five pathological gamblers to attempt suicide.

Isaiah Wall wants to get his life on track. But first, he’s gotta buy drugs for the police.

The Syrian refugee said his name was Paul, and that he was 16 years old. The truth was much more complicated.

On surfer girls in Maui; the story that led to the film Blue Crush.

The Manhattan murder mystery spurred a tabloid drama that engulfed the city’s rich and powerful. But what really happened?

The quest to transform this country cannot be limited to challenging its brutal police.

The refugee and author survived, stateless, for seven years. What’s next?

Stephen Glass, the most notorious fraud in journalism, decided he would live by one simple rule: Always tell the truth. Then he broke that rule.

After his father died in an Airbnb rental, the writer investigates what the company can do to improve safety.

What happened when the U.S. Military decided to take its lead from America’s biggest brands.

A ride-along with the guys tasked with demolishing the city’s 10,000 “abandoned, godforsaken homes.”

What really happened between the plaintiffs in Lawrence vs. Texas, the case that ended anti-sodomy laws?

The author’s long-running relationship with the grotesque.

A UVA alum goes back for the first rush week since the Rolling Stone story.

Her suicide made headlines around the world after classmates were indicted on felony charges related to bullying. The real story isn’t that simple.

What it takes to be the best alpine skier in the world.

A long-running inferiority complex, vast statutory power, a chilling new directive from the top—inside America’s unfolding immigration tragedy.

On a Missouri farm, two families worked the land side by side, until a murder shattered their American dream.

The U.S. military prison’s leadership considered Mohamedou Salahi to be its highest-value detainee. But his guard suspected otherwise.

The government required him to see a therapist. He thought his words would be confidential. Now, the traumatized migrant may be deported.

Tatiana Angulo came to the U.S. legally and was trying to do everything right. Then came the coronavirus.

After a journalist was assassinated, her sons found clues in her unfinished work that cracked the case and brought down the government.

Why did I ever believe a teen girl could hold all the power?

Grief, conspiracy theories, and one family’s search for meaning in the two decades since 9/11.

Yasiel Puig’s journey to the Dodgers.