How a disgraced principal-turned real estate mogul helped cause the global financial crisis.

The author goes in search of his father’s days as a member of an elite club of sport parachutists.

A profile of Steve Carell, whose last appearance as Michael Scott in The Office airs tonight.

In his first Major League at bat, Adam Greenberg was hit in the head with a fastball. He never made it back.

On the difficulties of holding Oakland’s thin blue line accountable.

The controversy over a widely-used prostate cancer screening test.

Eighty percent of North American teenagers are in the care of an orthodontist. On our obsession with perfect teeth.

What it’s like to be a first responder amid the rise of synthetic marijuana.

To reduce recidivism, a program brings criminals face to face with their victims. The results aren’t always what you’d expect.

Her parents wanted Jennifer to be successful. The pressure may have led her to plot their murder.

A small organic agave farmer stands firm against the collision of Big Agriculture and tequila.

He had the mind of a scholar, but he always insisted he didn’t want to be one.

The story of a sudden death amid a high school recruiting scandal in Texas.

The possibilities and limits of investigative reporting.

A love triangle between two married professors and the dean goes public.

Everything that happened before former NBA star Lamar Odom suffered multiple strokes on the floor of a Pahrump brothel.

The ongoing question of forgiveness in Charleston, where Dylann Roof opened fire in a church on June 17th.

The Straters’ lives have been devastated by relentless cyberattacks. And there’s nothing they can do about it.

An account of the 60 minutes after a heavyweight fight at Madison Square Garden that left one boxer with permanent brain damage.

Telephone poles began to appear around the same time that white Americans started lynching black Americans.

How a 63-year-old country singer went from a Nashville homeless shelter to #1 on the Swedish charts in under a year.

Michel Houellebecq on his controversial new novel, Submission, which imagines France electing its first Muslim president.

A baby dies after hitting his head when his father drops him, and the investigation that ensues can’t offer any easy answers.

Locals on the Outer Banks are arguing about whether climate change is real. Meanwhile, their islands are disappearing.

The writer Alfred Chester, who died alone in a Jerusalem apartment in 1971 at just 37, was brilliant. He was also insane.