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

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.

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

She’s 80 now, working 13 hour days, and still won’t take so much as a reporter’s hand to cross the stream.

Squeamish though they might be about God, even the totally irreligious can find some comfort in praying.

On Amaris Tyynismaa, the 14-year-old star runner who has Tourette’s.

On the difficult challenges faced by an auteur in Nigeria’s burgeoning Nollywood film economy.

How misdirected incentives in the bewildering medical supply industry keep innovative, life-saving equipment from reaching hospitals.

Why did a veteran BBC on-air personality confess on camera to a mercy killing he did not commit?

An 18-month investigation proves reveals how easy it is to get away with murder in Baltimore.

You watch your best friend jump off a bridge trying to end his life. What do you do? Vino Richemond jumped in after him.

What it takes to recover from a near-death brawl with a bear.

How a scandal started with a poor housemaid and ended up taking down the most powerful woman in Africa

How the Oculus founder, along with ex-Palantir executives, plan to reinvent national security, starting with Trump’s agenda.

The ace pilot risking his life to fulfill Richard Branson’s billion-dollar quest to make commercial space travel a reality.

The author spent a day with three men in a high-end security detail to find out how it feels to be safe.

How one man’s quest to spread Christmas cheer led to a miserable four-year war with his neighborhood.

When Swedish teenagers hacked the phone system and turned a state-owned telecom system into a proto-Internet.

Greed, drugs, dirty cops, and the bitter sibling rivalry burning up an $800 million Louisiana family dynasty.

An investigation into how the Church moves its money.

“What I learned about masculinity from my father, my father-in-law and my own transition.”

It wasn’t until death rates began to soar that society began to take the outbreak seriously enough.