“My name is Jackie and I am addicted to waitressing.” An essay on waiting tables.

Is a serial killer on the loose in Wellfleet? An investigation.

The anatomy of a sex abuse scandal at a Christian school in Oklahoma.

Women who kill their newborns usually claim to have been in denial about their pregnancies. Can you carry a child to term without realizing it?

An independent pawn store stumbles along in an economically depressed Pennsylvania town.

The first article in a two-part history of the Educational Testing Service, the institution behind the SAT.

The dream of getting from Los Angeles to San Francisco in 35 minutes has run into a few speed bumps.

How Montana became home to the highest concentration of hate groups in the nation.

What former NBA coach Monty Williams learned in the wake of losing his wife.

Sixteen months ago, Otto Warmbier, a junior at the University of Virginia, was arrested in Pyongyang. He’s still there.

The ’90s icon and Nine Inch Nails frontman talks about listening to music, his own and others, in 2017.

“GOD Almighty, you can get killed in Baltimore—for no reason at all.”

In Northern Albania, vengeance is as likely a form of restitution as anything the criminal-justice system can offer.

A swanky 12-story condo in Sarasota nearly collapsed, was rendered unlivable for years, and no one was to blame.

On growing up in Hollywood, the cost of beating Oprah at the Oscars, and why Jack Nicholson doesn’t act anymore.

The difficult final year of a much-loved and legendarily difficult woman.

Sean Quinn was once a billionaire folk hero, but then things turned very dark in the borderlands.

After a journalist was assassinated, her sons found clues in her unfinished work that cracked the case and brought down the government.

In the bloody civil war, Khaled al-Halabi switched sides. But what country does he really serve?

Anatomy of a murder trial.

The genetics of schizophrenia.

From Medusa to Merkel.

A profile.

Johnny Damon, after baseball.

A profile of Chelsea Clinton.