Joni Ernst’s reelection campaign may be an object lesson in what it takes for a woman to win in today’s GOP.

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

An investigation into the killing of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.

Ari Emanuel, Hollywood’s most tenacious agent, tries to remake himself as a mogul.

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.

The author and his daughter make a pilgrimage to witness greatness.

Indigenous water protectors face off with an oil company and police over a Minnesota pipeline.

A respected professor shot dead through the mansion window. A quaint New England town shaken to its core. One all-consuming obsession in Whip City.

On this ward at Morton Plant Hospital, nurses are overwhelmed by the number of new, desperate cases.

After decades of mismanaging its nuclear waste, the US Department of Energy wrestles with its toxic legacy.

The enforcer for Oregon’s grocery industry made enemies. One tried to kill him with thallium.

"If I had been a straight-A student my whole life and had rapped about Jesus coming back to save us all, I wouldn’t get no media. The motherfuckers wouldn’t give a fuck about me. But since I’m telling the truth, and been through what I’m stressing and know what I’m talking about, I’m a threat."

Scott Catt was a single dad trying to make ends meet, so he started robbing banks. Then he needed accomplices, so he asked his kids.

GROSS: Let me stop there. You're talking about cutting yourself ... HAMMOND: Yeah. GROSS: ..with a razor. HAMMOND: Mm-hmm. GROSS: So I interrupted you. You're saying it does what? HAMMOND: Well, it creates a smaller, more manageable crisis than the one that has you gripping the carpet.

Doc was a medical student in his 40s, but he spent his nights with the teenagers who hung around his San Antonion apartment complex, buying them drugs and booze. The first time he asked one of them to ritualistically kill him, they laughed it off. He would ask again.

Steven Seagal spent a few years in Japan and  returned to open a dojo in L.A.. Jules Nasso was the wiseguy producer behind all of Seagal’s hits. When it all fell apart, Seagal reputedly offered money for a contract killing, and Nasso may have been caught on tape arranging to extort Seagal through the Gambino Family.

Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show’s thrilling, scary, inept performance on German television.

How Singaporean mobster Tan Seet Eng, aka Dan Tan, and a global network of fixers influenced as many 680 soccer matches at the highest levels.

A trip to the French island of Réunion to report on a bloody battle between surfers and sharks.

The story of Kokie’s, and its gentrifying Williamsburg neighborhood.

What the bountiful sex lives of bonobos—they enjoy deep kissing, oral sex, dry humping, and polyamory—can teach us about humanity.

On the lonely life of a for-profit pageant queen.