Rabbi Barry Freundel said he would help dozens of women convert to Judaism. In the process, he secretly videotaped them naked.

After 13 years of war, the United States has helped create a nation ruled by drug lords.

An investigation into the steady dismantling of safety nets for injured workers.

Overcrowding in prisons leads to doubling up inmates in solitary confinement, regardless of their homicidal intentions or mental health.

The story of Martin McNally, who hijacked a plane in 1972. Among other crimes.

Inside the big and not especially scientific business of lavender and frankincense.

“I never got any help, any kind of therapy. I never told anyone.”

Ignoring warning signs of misconduct, Baltimore Police praised — and promoted — a Gun Trace Task Force leader.

An upstart football league goes horribly awry during its first season,.

They had $19 million, a deal with Disney, and dreams of becoming the next Ben & Jerry’s. Then everything fell apart.

Since 1932, the tiny town of Rugby, North Dakota, has claimed to be the geographical center of North America. But as with most things, the truth depends on who’s telling it.

Carried away by love—for risk and for each other—two of the world’s best freedivers went to the limits of their sport. Only one came back.

Will Vinton created the California Raisins, coined the term “claymation” and had a firm making $28 million a year in the late 1990s. By 2002, he was out of a job, replaced by a failed rapper who had gone by the name “Chilly Tee” and also happened to be the son of Nike co-founder Phil Knight.

A 38,000-word answer.

The grim world of outsourced content moderation.

How the Caltech basketball team, losers of 310 straight conference games, figured out a formula for winning.

Former Bob Ney, Mark Foley and William Jefferson underlings provide a street-level view of D.C. opprobrium.

A tony bedroom community in Los Angeles, a kidnapping gone horribly wrong, and the birth of a teenage fugitive.

A profile of the Russian spy-turned-Maxim covergirl.

On life in Los Angeles, and the specter of a second riot.

How a blind, destitute man became a world-class composer while living on the streets of New York.

What happened to one of the most hated basketball players in NCAA history after playing a single season at Georgetown.

Doug Dodd was a drug kingpin in high school. And now, like the narrator of a Scorcese film, he wants to tell his own story.

On a Duke student’s now infamous Powerpoint presentation of her sexual history; binge-drinking, post-feminism, and Mario Kart.

How a group of Queens high schoolers changed music forever while barely managing to remain on speaking terms.