In a shantytown near Johannesburg, an angry mob committed a horrifying crime that was caught on video.

On his legacy, his impact on California, and why “saints should be judged guilty until proven innocent.”

The failure of MTV’s Staten Island-based reality show and the fate of its cast members:

While Bridge & Tunnel hangs in programming purgatory, the DeBartolis are hamstrung by Draconian network contracts that reportedly don't allow them to have agents or managers or even talk about any of this publicly for five years. So while JWoww shills her own black bronzer line and Snooki slams into Italian police cars for $100,000 an episode, Gabriella and Brianna have been working respectively as a secretary and a pizza-order girl in Staten Island. The papers they signed as passports off Staten Island are effectively keeping them there.

As “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” comes to an end, a conversation with gay servicemen past and present.

On the “Pacification Process,” or how we ended up in the least violent moment in our species’ existence.

USB sticks bearing digital video are the new radio.

How Ross Ulbricht went from idealistic used-book seller to murderous drug kingpin.

How a family man dentist got involved in an underage prostitution ring.

How black market mining is destroying the Peruvian rain forest and enslaving child workers.

How KFC brought fried chicken to China and Africa as U.S. sales slumped.

It’s a club “filled exclusively with people who do not want to be members.”

On the Boston mobster’s exes.

75 years after its founding, it’s still hard to explain exactly why Alcoholics Anonymous works.

An American, born into privilege, became a bootleg DVD kingpin in Shanghai and then, in an unprecedented development, landed in Chinese prison.

A classified Guantánamo Bay interrogation log reveals the techniques used on Mohammed al-Qahtani, the so-called 20th 9/11 hijacker.

During his career, Josh Luchs gave college athletes thousands in cash, meals, and trips. Now he’s retiring and coming clean.

Nineteenth century Muslim-Christian hero Abd el-Kader, the “Algerian George Washington.”

Jack Nicholson interviewed at 73.

Did a school for spies get conned by a fake spook who molested students?

For mountaineers, it’s not enough just to get to the top—it’s how you get there that matters.

Young-adult books are being targeted in intense social-media callouts, draggings, and pile-ons — sometimes before anybody’s even read them.

How the media company failed to create “a safe and inclusive workplace” for women.

It’s less about robots and the gig economy and more about companies stripping away the security full-time work has long afforded.

Protests, populism, and progressivism all clashed in a battle royal. But what really drives election results?

A Native American family’s fight for housing security in the city and on the reservation.