An interview with R. Crumb on how he adapted Genesis into comic form.

On the longstanding human fascination with a light source we could borrow but not share.

“There’s no blueprint for remediating a radioactive town and then moving people back into it.”

Can a $100,000 robot that makes a delicious crab bisque replace a real chef?

An interview with Maurice Sendak.

“Anytime I was called a New Journalist I winced a little with embarrassment.”

When Jake Millison went missing, his family said he’d skipped town. But his friends refused to let him simply disappear.

An American mercenary, who did security for Trump rallies, attempts a amphibious coup along the Venezuelan border.

For 40 years, the city’s lifeguard corps has been mired in controversy, and for 40 years it’s been run by one man: Peter Stein.

Inside Randall Emmett’s direct-to-video empire, where many Hollywood stars have found lucrative early retirement.

A two-part story on Bill Gates and his revolutionary machine.

On the Toronto Islands, an ugly real estate battle forces neighbours to ask: How do we define family?

Foreign students are lied to and exploited on every front. They’re also propping up higher education as we know it

When a child vanished in Nova Scotia, online sleuths got involved in the search. Then they lost their way.

The comic answers some uncomfortable questions.

How a self-taught doctor from Delhi cornered the black market in kidneys, building one of the world’s most lucrative organ-trading rings, until it all came crashing down.

Cassie Chadwick pulled her first con in 1870, at the age of 13. Over the next 30 years, she would scam her way to $633,000, about $16.5 million in today’s dollars.

Almost 40 percent of the world’s population lives in countries with limits on abortion. Activists like Rebecca Gompert imagine a future where those limits are meaningless because most abortions happen at home.

How a Canadian used a Mohawk reservation’s lakes to smuggle tons of marijuana to stash houses in Brooklyn and Staten Island, resulting in nearly a billion in profits, which he laundered through the Sinaloa Cartel.

Since the Syrian rebel leader Hassan Aboud joined ISIS, taking with him fighters and weapons, he has been behind a sprawling mix of battlefield action and crime.

The tragic final days (and very weird afterlife) of a radio legend.

A gay freshman at Rutgers, a spying roommate, and the trial that followed.

Update 3/16/12: The roommate, Dharun Ravi, has been found guilty of hate crimes.

Stéphane Breitwieser robbed nearly 200 museums, amassed a collection of treasures worth more than $1.4 billion, and became perhaps the most prolific art thief in history.

The country’s cyber forces have raked in billions of dollars for the regime by pulling off schemes ranging from A.T.M. heists to cryptocurrency thefts. Can they be stopped?