A Russian soldier vanishes in Ukraine.

How the Border Patrol became America’s most out-of-control law enforcement agency.

A snitch comes clean.

On July 22, 2013, 66-year-old Gerry Largay began hiking a 32 mile section of the Appalachian Trail. She hasn’t been heard from since.

A group of journalists and researchers wade into ugly corners of the Internet to expose racists, creeps, and hypocrites. Have they gone too far?

Fears of witchcraft leave a trail of dismembered bodies in Buenaventura, Colombia.

The rise and murderous fall of the Harkey family, the scions of a pecan dynasty.

Junky, out-of-date science fuels jury errors and tragic miscarriages of justice. How can we throw it out of court?

“The grand jury witness who testified that she saw Michael Brown pummel a cop before charging at him ‘like a football player, head down,’ is a troubled, bipolar Missouri woman with a criminal past who has a history of making racist remarks and once insinuated herself into another high-profile St. Louis criminal case with claims that police eventually dismissed as a ‘complete fabrication.’”

Following the money and the opium in Afghanistan.

How Facebook ‘likes’ landed Jelani Henry in Rikers.

How solitary confinement can lead to suicide.

After 13 years of war, the United States has helped create a nation ruled by drug lords.

Telephone poles began to appear around the same time that white Americans started lynching black Americans.

Three men are exonerated, almost 40 years after a 12-year-old’s coerced testimony led to their murder convictions.

On the border of Utah and Arizona, Mormon fundamentalists have long lived according to their own rules. When a former sect member and his family moved to the town where he’d grown up, they expected a homecoming. What they got was a war.

In the gentrifying Bywater, the intertwined destinies of a legendary gay pool-bar and a woman who was drugged there.

On the 1934 lynching of Claude Neal, and the Florida town that kept the identity of those responsible a secret.

Inside the world of bass fishing cheaters.

Nancy and Frank Howard were happily married for three decades. Then he fell in love with another woman, embezzled $30 million, and hired a parade of inept hit men to kill his wife.

On Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik and the rise of Islamophobia in Norway.

An argument for how the system protects police.