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.

How digital detectives unraveled the mystery of Olympic Destroyer—and why the next big attack will be even harder to crack.

Cheryl Shuman has been a coupon queen, an optician to the stars and the plaintiff in a lawsuit against Steven Segal. Now she’s the face of the high-end weed market.

Shot and killed just shy of his 18th birthday, Deonte Hoard was one of 489 homicide victims in Chicago last year. How this happened—and how it keeps happening—is both one person’s story and the story of how a community has been forced to adjust to murder as an everyday fact of life.

A visit to Glenn Greenwald’s house in Rio.

Why one man made it his mission to kill 60 known sex offenders.

A murder involving the late actor leaves unanswered questions.

An investigation into America’s Greek system.

The U.N.’s role in creating an epidemic in Haiti.

The story was told by Sports Illustrated, CBS News, and countless others: linbeacker Manti Te’o, Heisman trophy candidate and the face of Notre Dame football, was playing brilliantly despite the tragic loss of his girlfriend to leukemia early in the season. The reporters missed one key element of Te’o’s story, however: the girl hadn’t died. She couldn’t have. She didn’t exist.

Embedded with the “hotshots” trying to battle forest fires.

Life on a weed farm in Humboldt County.

The surprising bond between damaged birds and traumatized veterans.

“Traffic was never the problem. Everything else was.”

Ten years after the Indian Ocean tsunami, an Indonesian family is reunited.

A mystery embedded deep within the Amazon.

What it means to stay true to the Steve Jobs brand.

Can we treat psychosis by listening to the voices in our heads?

What happened at OneTaste?

Nathan Phillips wants to talk about Covington.

How an obsession with school shooters led to a murder plot.

On the pioneering New Yorker cartoonist.

A dispatch from the World Clown Association Convention.

On faith and football.