The vans, operated by for-profit companies, carry tens of thousands of people every year. They lack beds, toilets, and medical services. More than a dozen women have alleged they were sexually assaulted by guards while being transported; since 2012, at least four people have died.

The night America elected Donald J. Trump president, 38-year-old Richard B. Spencer, who fancies himself the “Karl Marx of the alt-right” and envisions a “white homeland,” crowed, “we’re the establishment now.” If so, then the architect of the new establishment is Spencer’s former mentor, Paul Gottfried, a retired Jewish academic...

During New York’s ’80s and ’90s crack epedemic, a flashy detective who “imagined himself a crusader who created his own rules” and his star witness, a crack addicted prostitute who seemed to constantly be at the scene of homicides, sent dozens of men to prison for life. Now, they are under investigation.

In America's third oldest major city, a new sport has been born. It's called rustling cars. According to auto‑theft statis­tics, Newark has the highest rate of car theft per capita in the nation, more than forty cars each day. Sixty‑five percent of the thefts are perpetrated by teens and preteens, known hereabouts as the Doughnut Boys.

The author boards the Costa Atlantica for several days of line dancing, burlesque and buffets as part of the cruise industry’s new foray into China.

By the 1990s, the timeline of most superhero comics dipped back nearly 30 years, and beloved characters were saddled with impenetrable backstories and middle-age. Ultimate Marvel made Spider Man, X-Men, and the rest teens in the present day, rejuvenating the industry and setting the stage for Marvel’s string of hit films.

How a Chicago drug organization did business.

Investigating an insecure billionaire’s true worth.

A mother struggles to cope when a child is born with albinism.

A historic Little Rock building and its owner, before and after a catastrophic fire.

Unpacking a false confession 20 years later.

Life after a scandal.

Pimp, brawler, Old Master.

The Srebrenica massacre, almost 20 years later.

Following a lobster from sea to table.

On a $40 million raise and a fired co-founder.

Why the second Indiana Jones was so dark.

A couple’s only son is killed in Iraq.

On the Cold War and the Space Race.

Suicide-by-subway, and how the dead haunt the living.

A psychological, historical and neurological look at Alcoholics Anonymous.

A bullfighter’s comeback after a brutal goring.

On the troubled, legendary Deschutes River fly-fishing guide.

A trip to Hempfest with cannabis breeder DJ Short.