Prison medicine and the coming plague.

A short history of leisure.

A briefing on drone warfare.

The changing face of Appalachia.

How moonlight drives life in the ocean.

Growing old at the Playboy Mansion.

What we get wrong about the opioid crisis.

The golfer at his nadir.

The many lives of imposter Frédéric Bourdin.

On the Yonkers Hoot Owls.

Caliphate and the perils of reporting online.

The author relives her Romanian youth and the imprisonment of her father through the Securitate files kept on her family.

The decade-long journey of a novel–Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding–through the unpredictable world of book publishing.

The survivors who “have built the most effective, organized anti-rape movement since the late ’70s.”

The Interstellar director and the art of the blockbuster cult film.

An inside look at the Democratic infighting and Republican gameplan (“Obama, Obama, Obama”) that led to the midterm landslide.

In the Swiss town of Meiringen, where an obsessed group of ‘pilgrims’ painstakingly recreate the death of Sherlock Holmes.

A history of the Hollywood publicity racket.

The impact of the oil and gas booms taking place all over the world, and our future on fossil fuels.

In 2011, just before Christmas, a tiny Spanish town won 120 million Euros in the lottery. A trip to the new Sodeto.

Embedded with a U.S. bomb squad in Baghdad.

The story that inspired The Hurt Locker.

How agents took down Mexico’s most vicious drug cartel and, in the process, gave El Chapo the opportunity to create an empire.

In an era when America’s great sportswriters were as big as the athletes they covered, W.C. Heinz may have been the best of the bunch.

Full six-part series on the rise and fall of Viktor Bout, the most notorious arms dealer of the modern era.

Tracing the path of one of the world’s most in-demand minerals from deadly mines in Congo to your phone.