Nine innings with Mr. Baseball.

A young woman with a rare condition navigates El Paso.

A flamboyant player, a charismatic coach, and a sex predator.

Juries trust DNA. But should they?

How one man terrorized a small Illinois town.

Five murders. Two confessions. A mysterious envelope.

Inside a multimillion dollar scandal.

Malls were supposed to die. Instead they’re just being reimagined (again).

How to run a fashion empire.

“It’s like I’m risking my life for a dollar.”

Scare stories on “left-wing illiberalism” display a familiar pattern.

A trip to the South African Million Dollar Pigeon Race.

In 1990, there was no star bigger than the man born Robert Van Winkle. But just as quickly as he became the bestselling rapper the world had ever seen, he became a pariah.

On the appearance of an angel.

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In 1980, Richard Pryor doused himself in rum, lit himself, and streaked though the streets or Northridge in a ball of flames. He would go on to live another 25 years.

An East German weightlifter ingested more anabolic steroids than any other athlete in recorded history. It didn’t end well.

A glimpse of life on the suburban road, featuring Russian mobsters, Fox News rage addicts, a caged man in a sex dungeon, and Dick Cheney.

When IP mapping goes awry dozens of strangers show up to the same home again and again looking for their stolen gear.

Just a few years ago, universities had a chance to make a quality education affordable for everyone. Here’s the little-known and absolutely infuriating history of what they did instead.

A profile of the actor following a car accident that left him briefly in a coma and ultimately with a settlement so large he never has to work again.

How detectives from Scotland Yard, Romania, Germany, and Italy nabbed the so-called Mission: Impossible gang, which pulled off a string of daring warehouse heists.

The once-utopian accommodations site, now headed by an alum of surveillance-analytics firm Palantir, has gone back on its always-free ethos.

On the origins of Michael Jordan.

This interview with Kurt Vonnegut was originally a composite of four interviews done with the author over the past decade. The composite has gone through an extensive working over by the subject himself, who looks upon his own spoken words on the page with considerable misgivings . . . indeed, what follows can be considered an interview conducted with himself, by himself.