The Scandinavians had an idea that seems wacky to Americans: make a prison safe and livable.

Why do all those rugged coastlines, moors and stone buildings make England seem haunted?

Everyone just wants to know if he’s going to the football game.

What happens when a successfully funded Kickstarter product fails to launch?

What happened when Pakistan shut down the vitally important Karachi to Kabul trucking line.

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

What happened after Joan Lefkow’s husband and mother were murdered in her home.

Romney’s former Bain partner makes a case for inequality.

How Google’s utopian/dystopian plan to scan the world’s books failed and the Harvard-led team that’s picking up the pieces.

What happens when a complete stranger becomes convinced you’re the Zodiac killer.

Police and scientists investigate an outbreak.

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.

From Hong Kong to Bangkok to the Golden Triangle, the author searches for something everyone says no longer exists: an opium den.

Seized passports, debtor’s prison, and slave labor prop up a Disneyland in the desert now in decline.

How the social networks that popped up in Facebook’s absence—the site is not available behind the Great Firewall—are changing Chinese culture.

How J.C. Penney gamed Google and became the top result for searches on everything from “area rugs” to “skinny jeans.”

Jason Matthews worked at the CIA for more than 30 years. Then he started writing spy novels.

Once viewed as a forensic “silver bullet,” DNA evidence is coming under fire.

An ancient document suggests that Jesus had a wife. But an investigation into its origins leads to … Florida.

With The BFG, the filmmaker tackles childhood’s possibilities and terrors once again.

Inside a pageview scam.

On culture and the driverless car.

Controversy following a climbing disaster that killed eight.

The Hollywood backroom machinations that got the biopic to movie screens.