“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.

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.

John McAfee created one of the first anti-virus programs. Then he traveled to Belize, where he lived with a harem of young women and a lot of guns. His neighbor was murdered under mysterious circumstances.

The next frontier of search is… everything. Voice recognition, image recognition, and why Google’s data set is one of the most valuable scientific tools of our age.

In 1913, a ship carrying 31 explorers got stuck in the Arctic ice, hundreds of miles from civilization. The leader left to carry on the expedition. Others stuck with the boat. Help wouldn’t come for a year.

The dispute over what may be the biggest sunken treasure ever found – and who gets to keep it.

When it comes to sweatshops and child labor, your $7 H&M gym shorts aren’t really the problem (or the solution).

Pubs are closing all over London. One Camden establishment, the Golden Lion, decided to fight it.

On a Victorian-era murder case, and the novel it inspired.

James Regan swindled his way through the city’s monied classes. The problem was, he seemed to believe his own lies.

He had the gear, the charm, the trail stories. He found his marks in outdoorsy women.

The story of Soylent, a Silicon Valley concoction designed to replace your meals.

How a disgraced Civil War general became one of the best-selling novelists in American history.

How the foreclosure crisis ignited a new form of activism in Chicago’s vacant homes.

A profile of Kermit Oliver, a reclusive, critically acclaimed artist who designs scarves for Hermès and works nights at the Waco post office.

A decade in the life of America’s wiliest coyote.

On the Netflix hit drama and its show runner, Beau Willimon.

On Gabo and his complicated role in the country of his birth, Colombia.

An immigrant from Lebanon, a hair-cutting fortune, and the dream of building a castle on an island in British Columbia.

The real story of a fabricator.

On the fear-mongering history of sex education.

Joseph Mitchell used composites in his non-fiction, invented characters and added flourishes to his facts. Does it matter?