The post–civil war boom in shark fishing that saved Congolese fishermen and their families is now drying up.

Ari Emanuel, Hollywood’s most tenacious agent, tries to remake himself as a mogul.

Indigenous water protectors face off with an oil company and police over a Minnesota pipeline.

A respected professor shot dead through the mansion window. A quaint New England town shaken to its core. One all-consuming obsession in Whip City.

"If I had been a straight-A student my whole life and had rapped about Jesus coming back to save us all, I wouldn’t get no media. The motherfuckers wouldn’t give a fuck about me. But since I’m telling the truth, and been through what I’m stressing and know what I’m talking about, I’m a threat."

GROSS: Let me stop there. You're talking about cutting yourself ... HAMMOND: Yeah. GROSS: ..with a razor. HAMMOND: Mm-hmm. GROSS: So I interrupted you. You're saying it does what? HAMMOND: Well, it creates a smaller, more manageable crisis than the one that has you gripping the carpet.

Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show’s thrilling, scary, inept performance on German television.

An investigation into the ill-fated text messaging platform ZunZuneo.

On the highly enjoyable, nearly fatal first experiments with laughing gas in late 18th-century London.

On the seminal songwriter, who died four years ago today, in his final days before succumbing to dipsomania.

The Nigerian schoolgirls who escaped Boko Haram.

How a Rhode Island lawyer named Joseph Caramadre made millions by exploiting the life insurance industry’s fine print.

Revisiting a 30-year-old beating death in St. Louis.

A year and a half with Candace Desmond-Woods, whose husband, and Iraq war veteran, suffers from PTSD and alcoholism.

After a beloved teacher is murdered by his schizophrenic son, his colleagues and students pay him the ultimate tribute.

“More than a café, the shop is a carpentered-together, ingenious mechanism—a specialized tool—designed to keep Carrelli tethered to herself.”

On the problems in “Dr. V’s Magical Putter.”

The roast where Chevy Chase learned that everyone hates him.

The former Perfect Strangers star cheerfully slags Tom Cruise, Eddie Murphy and Denzel Washington, among others.

Kylee Kimbrough lost her childhood, lost her sobriety, lost her living situation, and finally even lost her son. Then she found the drums.

360 degree deals and the music industry’s new hostages.

Before The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen was just another literary novelist with a new book coming out.

How the CIA, under a program called MK-ULTRA, used a San Francisco apartment to dose johns with LSD.

What happens when Moneyball-style statistical analysis is applied to mixed martial arts.