The rise and dissolution of the magazine that nearly took down a president.

The article that spawned a school of thought; an elegy for the age of the megahit and a primer for the niche-based future.

Searching for (and easily finding) Mark Augustus Landis, the man behind the “longest, strangest forgery spree the American art world has known.”

David Boies argued Bush v. Gore all the way to the Supreme Court. He lost the case, but in the process gained another client: Harvey Weinstein.

The rare Chilean soapbark tree produces compounds that can boost the body’s reaction to vaccines.

On the fall of Ross William Ulbricht, the alleged creator of The Silk Road, a hidden black market website where users could buy and sell drugs, guns and, according to the FBI, the services of a hit man.

In the 1980s, Billy Ray Bates, once dubbed “the Legend,” drank himself out of the NBA and ended up playing in the Philippines. For a few wild years, his legend grew—both on the court and in the bars.

A small New Jersey town is world-famous among Orthodox Jews as a place to come ask for handouts.

Nearly every American soldier injured in Iraq or Afghanistan is treated—for a few days at least—at a single hospital in Landstuhl, Germany.

Culture profoundly shapes our ideas about mental illness, which is something psychologist Nev Jones knows all too well.

They’re supposed to safeguard pretrial detainees. But America’s oldest law enforcement agency is suffering from a massive dereliction of duty.

Makeda Davis emerged from more than seven years in prison to a life that is complicated, unfamiliar, and, sometimes, soul crushing.

How an HIV specialist in Germany is using media law to erase reporting of sexual abuse allegations against him.

On the anger that led to the Watts Riots of 1965, the mistakes made during those six days in August, and how little changed afterward.

In Guyana after the Jonestown massacre, with the survivors and the dead.

Uncovered letters reveal ties between the literary magazine and the CIA’s Congress for Cultural Freedom.

After a racial hazing incident, the first black head of South Africa’s University of Free State confronts the myths of the reconciliation era.

The author investigates the massive wildlife die-off in the Salton Sea by rafting from its tributaries in Mexico.

After a murder in the California wilderness, the search for the killer raises complicated questions about mental illness.

The story of the meeting that led to the creation of ISIS, as explained by someone still on the inside.

A profile of the “Oldboy” and “The Handmaiden” director.

The history of the City of London Corporation, a “prehistoric monster which had mysteriously survived into the modern world.”

The inside story of the first homicide in America’s most secure prison.