Henry Orenstein survived three years in concentration camps before creating Transformers and poker cameras.

In Virginia, paramilitarism gets a rebrand.

Andre Thomas cut out his children’s hearts and removed his own eyes. Texas considers him sane.

On reservations, where policing hardly exists, bruiser-for-hire vigilantes are often the first choice for justice.

On the producer Timbaland, then best known for collaborations with Missy Elliott, Aaliyah, and Ginuwine.

First Hormel gutted the union. Then it sped up the line. And when the pig-brain machine made workers sick, they got canned.

A small organic agave farmer stands firm against the collision of Big Agriculture and tequila.

Incremental changes in abortion laws lead to a system where women “turn themselves into pretzels” just to find a doctor.

A profile of Robert Caro, who’s been working on a biography on Lyndon Johnson for nearly 40 years.

Inside a small town revived by an influx of immigrants and then destroyed by a Homeland Security raid.

On what you come to appreciate after a short apprenticeship with paramedics.

The inside story of the megadonor and the Chinese casino money flooding our elections.

As divided families argued over whether to stay or go, Jones saw part of his congregation slipping away. Al Simon, father of three, wanted to take his children back to America. "No! No! No!" screamed his wife. Someone whispered to her: "Don't worry, we're going to take care of everything." Indeed, as reporters learned later from survivors, Jones had a plan to plant one or more fake defectors among the departing group, in order to attack them. He told some of his people that the Congressman's plane "will fall out of the sky."

Why it took more than a decade for the posthumous pardon of Tim Cole, even after another inmate confessed to the brutal crime that put Cole away.

On the pair of entrepreneurs behind a Wal-Mart of weed in Oakland. The duo is talking IPO. “Everybody I was meeting was a little bit older, more a part of the hippie generation,” says one. “I was like, ‘I bet there’s so much room for innovation and new ideas.’”

White women between 25 and 55 have been dying at accelerating rates over the past decade. Anna Marrie Jones was one.

Four years ago, Dominique Jones got out of prison and learned to rap. Today he is, by many metrics, the most popular rapper in the world.

Michael Savage used his position at San Francisco’s Presidio to stir up a controversy over Japanese American internment.

A portrait of a toxic workplace.

“Which is how, despite the drinking, the stealing, the racist outburst, the abysmal courtroom performance, the disbarment, and the ultimate imprisonment of his lead attorney, an intellectually disabled man has ended up on the verge of execution.”

What undercover investigators saw inside a factory farm.

“It’s insanity to kill your father with a kitchen knife. It’s also insanity to close hospitals, fire therapists, and leave families to face mental illness on their own.”