On the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, women express themselves through fierce short poems.

How pop-up tax preparers make billions off the poor.

On Dooce.com founder Heather Armstrong.

How one company helps landlords exploit a loophole in New York’s tenant laws.

A dispatch from the pandemic under Governor Kristi Noem.

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?

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.

An excerpt from Murakami's forthcoming novel, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.</a>

Philip Seymour Hoffman’s widow on addiction, loss, and recovery.

“Success for us will be determined by our ability to move faster than everyone else in this space.”

The bodies in the chalet were found in a secret chamber, arranged radiating out from a point like spokes in a wheel. Some had suffocated, some had been shot. They all were followers of a mysterious prophet, Luc Jouret.

A profile of Judy Clarke, who takes on the most heinous, notorious defendants in America, trying to save them from the death penalty. Until Dzokhar Tsarnaev, she usually succeeded.

When rival gangs confronted each other in the parking lot of a Hooters-esque restaurant, bullets flew. But was the whole a police setup?

A Wikipedia-style dissection of the case that inspired The Fugitive. The accused, Dr. Sam Sheppard, claimed to have struggled with an intruder before being knocked out and dumped on a beach, his wife’s left corpse in their house.

What the political history of radio can teach us about this moment on the internet.

How a big crime in a small town produced a whodunit as gripping and colorful as “The Wizard of Oz” itself.

Brad Parscale has said he’s taking a relative pittance to run the president’s reelection operation. But as with much of what Parscale has claimed about his work and life, that’s not the full story. This is.

Following the hunters and poachers, servers and saviors of the little-known pangolin—a scaly, endangered creature sold by the thousands on the black market.

Three years ago, Shell spent millions to send a colossal oil rig to drill in the remote seas of the Arctic. But the Arctic had other plans.