The story of heiress Huguette Clark, who spent her life avoiding people and collecting dolls.

During her brief tenure as governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin was a genuinely effective, bipartisan legislator. What went wrong?

The story of a Marine who saved innumerable lives, then got fired.

Researchers do look into near-death experiences, seeking a verified case of what they call “apparently non-physical veridical perception.”

Revisiting the 6200 block of Osage Avenue.

On the death of a high school basketball star in New York City.

The story of a bizarre—and bizarrely effective—smear campaign.

The reclusive director comes out of his shell at 73.

One of the most accomplished Himalayan guides works at an outdoor retailer in Lower Manhattan.

Searching for answers after unexplained brain injuries afflicted dozens of American diplomats and spies.

A profile of Lorena Bobbitt.

Does the ubiquitous dance troupe really present five thousand years of civilization reborn?

The history of a sundown town.

Inside a literary Ponzi scheme.

From Kenya to Amsterdam to New Jersey, an industry collapses in a matter of weeks.

Millions of human artifacts circle the Earth. Can we clean them up before they cause a disaster?

A former student and high school coach travel to California to kidnap the coach’s daughter, an adult film actress.

The United States fights wars it can’t win using soldiers it doesn’t know.

How Google’s utopian/dystopian plan to scan the world’s books failed and the Harvard-led team that’s picking up the pieces.

The underground routes by which drugs enter the U.S. from Mexico, and the officials who’ve found it almost impossible to curb their construction.

The Hollywood backroom machinations that got the biopic to movie screens.

Novelist Brad Thor thought he had found his doomsday-prepping soulmate, but then the End Times went bad.

How a tattooed video store clerk with a history of drinking and drug use ended up at an Islamic self-help class leading to the birth of ISIS.

He was a shining star of a tight-knit group of rising Black male models in London. Why did he die at the hands of another model?