The “zone of sacrifice” that is Oxnard, California, where low-income workers are paying the price for pesticide use and chemical dumping.

The hockey legend’s new life as a medical icon for a questionable stem-cell treatment.

How an L.A. high school dropout became an enforcer for Mexican cartels and ended up on the F.B.I. Most Wanted List.

A jogging buddy collapses during a marathon, his heart suddenly finished beating. The writer goes looking for answers.

Two floors of a building in prime Brooklyn for $1000 a month seemed too good to be true. It was.

“There’s no blueprint for remediating a radioactive town and then moving people back into it.”

A profile of 36-year-old curator Loïc Gouzer, who has made millions for Christie’s.

A boy whose skin blisters at the smallest touch is fighting for his life.

Anna Nicole Smith molded herself into an American fantasy. When that fantasy fell apart, we blamed her for it.

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

When Michael Deng joined an Asian-American frat, he was searching for belonging and identity. Two months later he was dead.

How dangerous is the media company that Steve Bannon called “the platform for the alt-right”?

A 2016 investigation into why Houston wasn’t ready for the next big hurricane.

For decades, “abnormal” embryos were thrown away during the IVF process. Then some pioneering doctors — and patients — decided to use them anyway.

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

A swanky 12-story condo in Sarasota nearly collapsed, was rendered unlivable for years, and no one was to blame.

A 5-part series on how drug lords make billions smuggling gold to the U.S. for your jewelry and phones.

Forty-eight years after being attacked, a St. Petersburg, Florida woman searches for a way to cope.

Thousands of internal documents help explain how, through brutality and bureaucracy, the Islamic State stayed in power for so long.

On the star who is re-writing the rules for the next generation.

How a tiny protest at the University of Nebraska turned into a proxy war for the future of campus politics.

Inside the cases for—and against—his removal from office.

He was a far-right, pro-Trump media figure looking for his big break. Then Lane Davis stabbed his father to death.

The platform’s entertainment for children is weirder—and more globalized—than adults could have expected.

The predatory trainer may have just taken down USA Gymnastics. How did he deceive so many for so long?