After years of sexual abuse by a neighbor, a teenager takes matters into his own hands.

[Part 2 of 2] The story behind this spring’s spate of retributive murders in Southwest D.C.

On how a childhood spent in New York City’s tenements led a 15-year-old boy to be convicted of murder.

Kevin Hart wanted a scholarship to play Division I college football. It didn’t come. So he made one up–and called a press conference.

Slumdog Millionaire, the 2008 Mumbai attacks, and the arrival of “New India” in the American imagination.

The cops thought they had captured a fugitive. They had not. Elias Fishburne was a hairdresser from Maryland and was going to jail.

A profile of Rafael Pérez, an infamously corrupt LAPD officer and the inspiration behind the Vic Mackey character on The Shield.

A trip to Râmnicu Vâlcea, a town of 120,000 where the primary (and lucrative) industry is Internet scams.

The juvenile ward on Rikers Island is a world of constant violence fueled by gangs and, allegedly, encouraged and overseen by the guards.

The bizarre tale–and unlikely turnaround–of an NHL player who tried to have his youth coach murdered.

When the music was real, but the bands were fake.

Cars driving themselves into walls. Hospitals frozen. Elevators jammed. A scenario that could happen based on what already has.

The story of a home invasion, a torture session, and one lawyer who nearly killed another.

Two officers discovered rampant corruption and criminal activity at the heart of Chicago’s police department. Then they were punished by their peers. A four-part series.

“He kissed me directly on the lips. I thought, ‘Oh my God, gross.’”

As a right-wing terrorist cell went on a seven-year killing spree, did authorities look the other way?

The long legal saga of Kerry Max Cook, who for almost 40 years fought to clear his name after being convicted of murder.

James Regan swindled his way through the city’s monied classes. The problem was, he seemed to believe his own lies.

Inside the Tacoma Northwest Detention Center, “an opaque system that literally disappears people” accused of immigrating illegally.

The short friendship of Kody Robertson and Michelle Vo.

Eight calls to 911. Three visits by five police officers. One woman’s senseless death.

He had the gear, the charm, the trail stories. He found his marks in outdoorsy women.

“GOD Almighty, you can get killed in Baltimore—for no reason at all.”

In 2015, two bright Mississippi State college students started dating. Months later, they were planning their life together—alongside ISIS.

On Long Island, unaccompanied minors are caught between the violence of MS-13 and the fear of deportation.