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.

“It’s more than soup.”

Last year, a group of young Romanians stole millions of euros worth of art from the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam. They had previously only robbed homes and thought the artwork would be easy to sell. It was not. So they secreted it back home, where, in an effort to save her son, the leader’s mother burned it.

Kidnapping and international adoption.

Remembering Patrice O’Neal.

On the ground in Nigeria with the nation’s notorious scam artists, who share a remarkable number of qualities with America’s top entrepreneurs.

"Really, the ideas and theories we form about others and their motivations are just as much portraits of ourselves as they are descriptions of other people. It’s impossible for them to be anything else, when you think about it."

In 2003, the destruction of one particular statue in Baghdad made worldwide headlines and came to be a symbol of western victory in Iraq. But there was so much more to it—or rather, so much less.

What makes a great show?

How the Oglala Lakota healed from a massacre.

On the clip that captured a society falling apart.

A physician becomes convinced he’s dying.

How the veterinary industry went corporate.

Two very different fates at the Chicago Marathon.

It was the worst AIDS crisis in years—until it wasn’t.

On the modern era’s answer to James Baldwin.

Tracking down the very best in Grateful Dead concert concessions.

A jailhouse interview.

Doing mushrooms in space.

A reporter returns to My Lai.

How Sherwin Shayegan pulled off a 3,000-mile, piggyback ride-fueled road trip.

On rongorongo, which no one can decipher.

The paper spiked a #MeToo story. Why?

“Someone has sliced open soccer’s hourglass, and the sand has come pouring out on to the streets.”

Catching up with the controversial radio host, who recently returned to the air after years away.