For many immigrants coming through Arizona, it’s not enough to pay a coyote to shepherd you across the border. You also need to pay the ransom demanded by your kidnapper after you arrive.

While driving through a dangerous curve in East Texas, James Fulton crossed into oncoming traffic and killed a young woman. The cops said the crash was an accident. But the Smith County DA saw it differently.

Local communities are taking the world’s largest polluters to court. And they’re using the legal strategy that got tobacco companies to pay up.

The largest crowdfunding site in the world puts up a mirror to who we are and what matters most to us. Try not to look away.

Antonio Carrion was headed for the NFL when the voices started and he drifted away. Then his estranged mother finished her time for robbery and saved him from a system that’s unkind to the mentally ill.

Banned in Russia and cut by Condé Nast from the GQ website, this story (presented in full) details the intrigue behind the Moscow apartment bombings, blamed on Chechens, that allowed Putin to rapidly ascend to power.

In staying, I was not only denying myself the chance at true happiness, but I was keeping him from having it, too. It was that realization—that I was preventing my husband from having the life he deserved—that ultimately outweighed the fears I had about leaving.

Twenty-five years ago this month, “superpredator” was coined in The Weekly Standard. Media spread the term like wildfire, creating repercussions on policy and culture we are still reckoning with today.

The company’s AI algorithms gave it an insatiable habit for lies and hate speech. Now the man who built them can’t fix the problem.

How the Ebola virus works.

On working in a war zone to pay the bills.

Thirty-one years ago, Joy Hunley’s daughter was adopted. At least that’s what the paperwork says.

The 22-year-old rapper on escaping North Long Beach and his desire to be a “regular” guy.

Joanne the Scammer has celebrity fans and a massive YouTube following. Branden Miller barely leaves his Daytona Beach apartment.

The gospel according to nine-year-olds; a missionary group that won the right to evangelize in schools and how children process their message.

An interview with a Mexican-born American attorney who defended and eventually smuggled for the cartels in the ’90s.

In 1902, a poet attempts to stage the world’s first “perfume concert.”

The author gets a crash course in health care pricing after having his urethra fixed.

On the producer Timbaland, then best known for collaborations with Missy Elliott, Aaliyah, and Ginuwine.

On the controversial British newspaper columnist Katie Hopkins.

A secret meeting, and short Q&A, with the drug lord while he was still on the lam.

The inside story, involving low ratings, new ownership, suspected leaks, and a mandate that Meet the Press “loosen up.”

How an up-and-coming Boston surgeon became best known for leaving a patient on the operating table while he skipped out to cash a check.