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.

A brief history of churchyards, cemeteries, and the ghosts that haunt them.

What should be done with the bodies of ISIS fighters? While investigating in Mosul, the author uncovers a terrible crime.

The story of a Pacific Palisades con man named Jeffrey Lash.

With your mom.

Bobby Fischer unravels before the 1972 World Chess Championships, a.k.a. the “Match of the Century.”

Did the NBA executive use social media to secretly disparage his players and defend his decisions?

How a meteorite hunter’s obsession took him from the mountains of Colorado, to the Bundy Ranch, and eventually landed him in jail.

A “reckless” fracking company, poisoned springs, and a family forced to buy water at Walmart.

“The academy’s prestige has been shattered, probably forever,” by allegations of sexual harassment and corruption.

The world’s fastest growing economy isn’t China; it’s the “unheralded alternative economic universe of System D” aka the $10 trillion global black market.

A new wife, a dead husband, and the arsenic panic that shook the Victorian world.

The untold story of Alek Minassian, a year after the deadliest mass murder in Toronto history

How a childhood of anger led the founder of 8chan to create one of the darkest corners of the internet.