The story of 15-year-old Audrie Pott, who took her own life after nude photos of her were circulated at school.

How a group of vigilante cat-lovers seeking the hooded figure who suffocated a kitten in an internet video found a sadistic killer.

On being the lone male student at a women’s college.

In Guyana after the Jonestown massacre, with the survivors and the dead.

How an increase in the earth’s temperature could wipe out a continent.

A group of Long Island misfits with aspirations towards Satanic worship disappeared into the woods to take mescaline. One of them never came back.

The story of Bowe Bergdahl, a soldier who walked off his base in Afghanistan only to be captured by the Taliban.

A profile of “not just the toughest but the most corrupt and abusive sheriff in America.”

A profile of Alex Jones, who draws a bigger online audience than Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh combined.

How the Robin Hood of gamblers got ensnared in a money laundering scheme led by former football players.

How a hanger-on at the fringe of San Francisco’s rock scene built the Rolling Stone empire.

How a senseless double murder in Florida exposed the rise of an organized fascist youth movement in the United States.

Inside the compulsive world of airline rewards hobbyists, who spend the bulk of their lives flying around the world for free.

How Evangelicals have claimed Trump as one of their own.

How does a Latin-pop superstar spend lockdown? Hanging out with his girlfriend, watching ‘Toy Story’ and surprising the world.

At least 44 Fort Bragg soldiers died stateside in 2020—several of them were homicides. Families want answers. But the Army isn’t giving any.

The postscript of a viral hit.

How the pop psychedelic author helped jumpstart the modern apocalypse movement after an alleged visit from “Quetzal-coatl, a mystical bird-serpent in Mayan myths.”

A polygamist clan descended from four original families, the Order are believed to run the largest organized crime operation in Utah. When a chest full of gold disappeared, suspicion immediately fell on a group of boys who had split with the cult.

Between 1937 and 1973, Earl Johnson served out the sentences on nine felonies, worked for Charlie “Cherry Nose” Gio, became friends with a Soviet spy, and tried to kill “Joe Cargo” Valachi of the Cosa Nostra with a poison dart.

Developed by early computer engineers in their spare time, improved in University comp-sci labs, and ultimately sold in coffeeshops for ten cents per game. Inside one of the most influential games ever played.

How a middle-class jock from a Texas border town became La Barbie, one of the most ruthless and feared cartel leaders in Mexico.

CeCe McDonald, a homeless trans teen in Minneapolis, was charged with murder for defending herself. Then she became a folk hero.

On the many lives and careers of Owsley Stanley (1935-2011), chemist, sound design innovator, and outback jeweler, whose name appears in the OED as a synonym for “a particularly pure form of LSD.”

The rise, fall and stubborn survival of a teenage Internet celebrity who discovered that the real world can be a very scary place.