“What transpired in the streets appeared to be a kind of municipal version of shock and awe.”

Exploring the relationship between cats and the Internet in Japan.

Behind the tabloid story of the “murder orphan” in Queens.

Revisiting a 30-year-old beating death in St. Louis.

Spending time with the Tonya Harding Fan Club in the wake of the assault on Nancy Kerrigan.

A visit with Ai Weiwei, Laura Poitras, and Jacob Appelbaum, three people who live in justifiable paranoia of government surveillance.

In Guyana after the Jonestown massacre, with the survivors and the dead.

June 4, 1974: the first and last 10-cent beer night in Cleveland Indians history.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, oil magnate and once the richest man in Russia, delivers a speech from prison, where he has lived since 2003.

More than 15% of Detroit’s adults have asthma, and 82% of black students go to schools in the most polluted parts of the city.

Who authorized the bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan, and why?

After a murder in the California wilderness, the search for the killer raises complicated questions about mental illness.

In the last year alone, over 150,000 people have risked their lives to leave.

Two days with a group of white nationalists in Kentucky.

Was the attack outside of the LeBaron compound really by a cartel?

Many young South Koreans were beginning to live in isolation years before the rest of the world joined them.

When model Kimberly Fattorini died after a night out in Hollywood, everyone assumed she’d accidentally overdosed. But there was more to the story.

Musicians are in peril, at the mercy of giant monopolies that profit off their work.

In Kabul, one of the world’s most dangerous cities, one man works to help Afghan migrants return to a place they never knew.

An investigation into the practice of putting teenagers in solitary confinement.

Ardelia Ali was raped in 1995. Twenty years later, her attacker was convicted.

An investigation into the abuse and neglect of adults with disabilities in Illinois.

Mary Kuanen escaped the violence of Sudan only to live through her husband’s murder in suburban Denver. This is her life today.

Writing a “stunt memoir” in the waterpark capital of the world.

How an autocratic CEO made the company billions, alienating almost everyone else in the process.