Was one of Detroit’s most notorious criminals also one of the FBI’s most valuable informants?

Two decades after his last deadly act of ecoterrorism, the Unabomber has become an unlikely prophet to a new generation of acolytes.

Jerold Haas was on the brink of blockchain riches. Then his body was found in the woods of southern Ohio.

The case against a notorious cat burglar, who is accused of stealing more than $12 million worth of the South’s finest sterling silver.

One man’s choice to stand alone. The story of race, politics, and power in baseball.

Their community forged by industry, residents of Badin, North Carolina confront the long shadow of racism and pollution.

How Tim Durham funded a libertine lifestyle—dozens of luxury cars, Playboy-themed parties, a plethora of failed businesses—on the backs of unwitting Ohioans, many of them Amish.

After his untimely death at age 50, prior to the publication of any of his novels, Larsson is posthumously at the center of a publishing empire built on the international success of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

The Piano Man of Yarmouk fled the ruins of Damascus to a life of criss-crossing Germany playing songs about his old neighborhood to huge crowds. Because of refugee law, he is paid nothing.

Somaly Mam’s harrowing story of her own flight from sexual servitude and the stories of hundreds of girls she rescued from Cambodian brothels brought her fame and helped raise millions for her non-profit. Does it matter if none or few of the stories are true?

The story of a small town just outside Pittsburgh that has suffered through a half-century of economic decline, racial tension, and endless crime. Despite that trajectory, or perhaps because of it, Aliquippa has also produced an astounding number of NFL players.

On the complete corruption of Paul Bergin, a federal attorney turned high-priced defense lawyer now awaiting trial on a host of charges.

If Paul is guilty of half the things they say, he’d be the craziest, most evil lawyer in the history of the State of New Jersey. That is saying something.

A history of a small Texas town deep in the Chihuahuan desert:

The isolation is such that if you laid out the islands of the Hawaiian archipelago, and the deep ocean channels that separate them, on the road between Marfa and the East Texas of strip shopping and George Bush Jr., you’d still have 100 miles of blank highway stretching away in front of you.

The name Shecky can vacillate from noun to verb to adjective. The opinion of every comedian during that gilded age of show business, whether they were Republican Bob Hope or hipster Lenny Bruce, is that Shecky Greene was the wildest of them all. The craziest of them all. Most importantly - the funniest of them all.

Do jellyfish have minds?

A profile of the internet’s poet, Patricia Lockwood.

A digressive consideration of the popular new show.

A history of the war between Amazon and the book industry.

The author ponders the dissolution of his own marriage, and others.

The false promise and double standard of integration in the Obama era.

On “soldiers for credibility” and the tug of war over truth.

An oral history of the Dr. Dre album.

Calculating restitution for victims of child pornography.

On the barely regulated business of looking after kids.