On the overstated effect of the Santa Ana winds on human behavior and the understated impact of climate change on LA’s seasons.

“In some ways, joining the military is an act of faith in one’s country—an act of faith that the country will use your life well.”

The doctors, patient, and ethics behind the experiment.

How and why the goverment pulled Silicon Valley into the war on terror.

A triple homicide, the alleged involvement of a Boston Marathon bombing suspect, and those caught up in the FBI’s ongoing investigation.

First Hormel gutted the union. Then it sped up the line. And when the pig-brain machine made workers sick, they got canned.

The death of the journalist who exposed dark secrets about Islamic extremism in Pakistan’s military.

The Runaways, their manager Kim Fowley, and the rape of the band’s bassist, long kept a secret.

The man who killed John Wilkes Booth was a eunuch. By choice.

Contemplating Gaudi’s unfinished masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia church, as the controversial finishing work is completed.

On the Calorie Restriction movement, the scientifically-supported belief that the key to a very long life is to eat as little as possible.

David Petraeus, father of the surge and the uncontested “most competitive” man in the military.

How an alcoholic doctor simultaneously saved his own life and made what could be the medical breakthrough of the century.

How a journalism professor named Dan Sinker became the most entertaining part of the Chicago mayoral race.

A look back at the spill that launched a movement.

A former schoolyard bully finds a new identity through Buddhism. A classmate wonders why he changed—and if he remembers the pain he caused.

On the frontlines of extinction in the Gulf of California, where the vaquita faces its final days.

Inside the growth of Goop — the most controversial brand in the wellness industry.

Who is the rightful inventor of the blockbuster swimsuit known as the Kiini?

An investigator set out to discover the source of one scammy robocall. Turns out, his target made them by the millions.

The story of a lifelong addict and an unlikely friendship.

Housing insecurity in the nation’s richest cities is far worse than government statistics claim. Just ask the Goodmans.

Can the king of ultrarunning conquer a race as short as the marathon?

On the racially motivated destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood district.

Could shrunken heads from the Amazon hold the key to curing cancer? One man thought so—and spent a lifetime trying to prove it.