Obama’s presidency may well be defined by whether or not he can curb unemployment. Step One: find a decent idea.

“I feel like we sort of choked.”

In dozens of criminal trials, prosecutors have put the same gun in the hands of more than one defendant.

Andrew Therrien wanted payback. He got it—and uncovered a conspiracy.

A New Orleans football legend reached the pinnacle of the sport, playing in three Super Bowls. Then he disappeared.

On Montana’s Flathead Indian Reservation, basketball is about much more than winning.

An analysis of online activity during the 2016 campaign makes the case that targeted cyberattacks by hackers and trolls were decisive.

An interview with the actor.

Decades on, a massive half-built monument in the Black Hills remains controversial.

A group of volunteers is helping incarcerated people negotiate a system that is all but broken.

The fading beauty of Japan’s traditional cafes and their signature snack.

On the anti-communist genocide known by the Indonesian Army as Operation Annihilation.

How the murder of Timothy Coggins was finally solved.

Following the United Nations’ war crimes detectives who tracked down a man who helped unleash the Rwandan genocide of 1994.

How the Brazilian butt lift, one of the world’s most dangerous plastic surgery procedures, went mainstream.

How the former CEO of McKinsey, who was indicted in the largest insider trading case in United States history, got played.

What happens after your goofy little company gets swallowed by Amazon.

On Amir Taaki and Cody Wilson, two anarchists with a history of creating controversial software, and their dream of an economy based on untraceable, uncontrollable money.

On the platonic but volatile relationship between fashion designer Alexander McQueen, who committed suicide in 2010 and professional muse Isabella Blow, who committed suicide in 2007.

A profile of Griselda Blanco, aka the “Black Widow,” who pioneered the cocaine trade in New York and Miami.

A law professor’s interpretation of the 2004 hit.

From pinball prohibition in 1940s NYC to Dave & Buster’s, the rise and fall of the American arcade.

The mysterious death of Alfred Wright in the shadow of a town’s history of racial violence.

Maybe Clinton isn’t a “good candidate,” as political junkies like to say. But that might not matter in 2016.