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

The activist who turned off the Keystone pipeline last fall is facing years in prison - and not backing down.

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

On conservative radio host John Ziegler and “the strange media landscape in which political talk radio is a salient.”

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.

Many long-haulers feel that science is failing them. Neglecting them could make the pandemic even worse.

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.

The world’s leading scientists try to solve climate change.

Maintaining order behind bars.

On the Clintons’ political future.

The trade in fake olive oil.

Tracking the humble hummingbird down to Belize.

The most powerful man in publishing, unfiltered.

On the adultery website AshleyMadison.com.

Fact-checking David Sedaris.

When the Rolling Stones played Altamont.

“The regular average layman couldn’t see what I see. And the way they’re painting the trainer is all wrong. Look at him there, screaming, Do this! and Do that! I never had anyone telling me what to do. I did it. Shouting at the fighter like that makes him look like an animal, like a horse to be trained.”

Pacquiao and his entourage.

How dancing can inspire a writer.

Meet the people decomposing on a body farm.

Kamala Harris makes her case.

Wanders through the emptied post-American landscape.

Introducing the real Will Smith.