An essay on Jimmy Savile, British television and child sexual abuse.

After being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a 30-year-old woman loses most of her memory.

A family turns to murder to save one of their own.

Dr. Joel Dreyer was a respected psychiatrist. Then he took a sudden turn to a life of drug dealing. Medicine might be able to explain why.

A profile of Eugene Kaspersky, KGB-trained online security mogul.

Key and Peele try to make comedic sense of America’s confusions about race. Their secret? “Really, there’s no actual strategy.”

Thirty years ago, few people had ever heard of ADD. ‘Early onset depression’ might become a common diagnosis long before 2040.

One woman’s account of clandestine meetings, financial transactions, and legal pacts designed to hide an extramarital affair.

Hannah Upp keeps disappearing, forgetting her sense of self. Can she still be found?

A romance author accused her husband of poisoning her. Was it her wildest fiction yet?

Can face-to-face meetings between a victim and an abuser—a form of restorative justice—help a society overwhelmed with bad behavior?

Caterpillar’s CEO made $22 million last year. Some of his employees are on food stamps.

How a bioethicist’s field of study—suicide, euthanasia, a dignified death—”turned unbearably personal.”

How a small group academics revealed an ancient order of opthamologists.

A bus tour through Israel with a conservative radio host and 450 of his biggest fans.

A conversation about race, Hollywood, and what it’s like to be able to conjure weed out of thin air.

How a series of lies and an incompetent lawyer led to a Florida woman’s wrongful conviction.

Confessions of a serial husband.

Notes from a month-long voyage on a massive container ship.

An excerpt from a new oral history of MTV.

A French reporter went undercover as potential “caliphette” and recieved a marriage proposal from a senior ISIS commander.

Should modern medicine shift its end-of-life priorities, focusing less on staving off death and more on improving a patient’s last days?

How a legally dubious FBI sting lured a pair of Russian hackers stateside.

Filipinos make up nearly a third of all cruise ship workers. It’s a good job. Until it isn’t.

“I feel like we sort of choked.”