The story of a bank robber who risked his life to put a killer on death row.

The agonies of being overweight—or running a diet company—in a culture that likes to pretend it only cares about health, not size.

There was no doubt: Jeremy Gross had brutally murdered a convenience store clerk. All that was left to decide was his punishment. Death or life without parole? The story of a capital murder trial, as seen from the jury box.

Alex drew his school’s mascot during class.Then he was suspended, arrested and deported. How high schools have embraced the Trump administration’s crackdown on MS-13 and destroyed immigrant students’ American dreams.

The author spends time with the reporters fighting to keep news alive in an age when the forces they cover are working equally hard to destroy them.

Wealthy businessman Merv Bodnarchuk put together the dream team of curling. Then he put himself in the lineup.

Hitman-for-hire darknet sites are all scams. But some people turn up dead nonetheless.

The story of $800 million hedge fund fraudster Boaz Manor who led the alleged $31 million Blockchain Terminal ICO after disguising his identity with a beard.

The making of Blonde on Blonde in Nashville.

A profile of Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

African Elephants have been killing people, raping rhinos, and exhibiting uncharacteristically aggressive behavior. An investigation reveals deep similarities between elephants’ and humans’ reaction to childhood trauma.

On the start of the high school football season in Odessa, Texas. An adaptation published alongside the release of Bissinger’s 1990 book of the same name, which led to the movie and the show.

Jack Whittaker won a $314 million Powerball jackpot. This bit of luck would destroy him.

A profile of a suburban New Jersey fifth-grader named Colin Duffy.

Inside the maze of an Amazon scam storefront empire.

Published across three consecutive issues and later adapted into the book (and mini-series) Generation Kill, the story of bullets, bombs and a Marine platoon at war in Iraq.

A 1993 profile of Ricky Jay, world-class sleight-of-hand conjurer who rarely performs (and never for children), historian of unusual entertainments and confidence scams, bibliomaniac.

The true story of M Company: from Fort Dix to Vietnam in 50 days.

What prison does to a person.

Thomas Sweatt torched D.C. for decades and was finally jailed for killing one person. During a year-long correspondence from prison with a reporter, he confessed there were more.

For two decades, domestic counterterrorism strategy has ignored the rising danger of far-right extremism. In the atmosphere of willful indifference, a virulent movement has grown and metastasized.

On a desolate, six-mile stretch of Indian beachfront, the bulk of the world’s big ships are dismantled for scrap. Though a ship is usually worth over $1 million in steel, the margins are low, the leftovers are toxic, and the labor—which employs huge numbers of India’s poor—is wildly dangerous.

On incarcerated mothers and their decimated families.

A murder, a missing deer head, and a Mr. Big sting.