When the greatest players in the world go head-to-head, things can get downright angsty.

A portrait of three high school kids in Arizona forced to live on their own after SB 1070.

How prison changed the mother and militant who was sentenced to 75 years for her role in a deadly 1981 Brinks truck heist.

A profile of the singer as he returns to the stage for the first time in a dozen years.

A Georgia chicken farmer hoped to find financial independence in ethical foie gras. Things got weird.

What happened to one of the most hated basketball players in NCAA history after playing a single season at Georgetown.

Doug Dodd was a drug kingpin in high school. And now, like the narrator of a Scorcese film, he wants to tell his own story.

Dozens of young adults in rural Wales are hanging themselves, feeding an epidemic of copycat suicides that experts are have been unable to contain.

On how a childhood spent in New York City’s tenements led a 15-year-old boy to be convicted of murder.

A trip to the Famous Poets Society convention/contest in Reno.

Most of the country is trying to keep guns out of schools. A town in rural Idaho is taking the opposite approach.

Two floors of a building in prime Brooklyn for $1000 a month seemed too good to be true. It was.

In Utah, an unlikely leader is looking to end the state’s land-use wars.

In the throes of an epidemic, researchers investigate how to inoculate against the disease.

How the “biggest grow op willing to publish its address” could make Canada an international pioneer in the legalization and commercialization of weed.

The Obama administration was supposed to fight corporate concentration. In the airline industry, at least, it didn’t work out that way.

“We have a lot in common. We go to the same shrink.”

What it takes to be the best alpine skier in the world.

How a fight to stop a potentially toxic Costco chicken plant in Nebraska made common cause of small-town environmentalists and anti-Muslim xenophobes.

Junior’s personal life is in shambles, Robert Mueller looms large, and it’s never been trickier to be the president’s son.

Can a December marathon in Northern Maine, organized by an eccentric long-distance runner, make a difference to a former mill town?

Makeda Davis emerged from more than seven years in prison to a life that is complicated, unfamiliar, and, sometimes, soul crushing.

One man’s choice to stand alone. The story of race, politics, and power in baseball.

In 2018, Floridians voted overwhelmingly to end greyhound racing, a sport they were told was archaic and inhumane. What if they were wrong?

How an HIV specialist in Germany is using media law to erase reporting of sexual abuse allegations against him.