How China remembers the Cultural Revolution. By Ji Xianlin.

When a charter boat sunk in the Caribbean and spilled Dan and Kate Suski into the sea, the brother and sister’s bond would become the difference between life and death. By Matthew Halverson. (Oct. ’15)

For thousands of years, sailors in the Marshall Islands have navigated vast distances of open ocean without instruments. Can science explain their method before it’s lost forever?

This week, things get even weirder (think UFOs and human cloning) as we take a detour on our twisted treasure hunt for Maria Duval to find out more about the scheme's alleged masterminds.

Philip Johnson was a promising musical prodigy. Then he stole a teacher’s prized Stradivarius. By Geoff Edgers.

The emails should've made Kathleen Kane's career. Instead, they destroyed it. By David Gambacorta. (Feb. 24)

The police and public gasped at the audacity of the Great Hatton Garden heist of 2015, where millions in cash and jewels were taken from an underground vault in London’s diamond district. Mark Seal investigates the unorthodox daring of the perpetrators—and the high-tech investigation that snared them.

Last July, a Russian helicopter pilot had nearly completed a record-breaking trip around the globe when he crashed into the icy waters of the Arctic Circle.​ He never should have survived. ​By Justin Nobel.

The making and unmaking of a half-billion-dollar treasure hunt. By Robert P. Baird.

In an exclusive interview with TIME, Cook discusses your privacy, America’s security, and what’s at stake in the battle over encryption. The day after the massacre in San Bernardino, Calif., where Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik shot to death 14 people and wounded 22 others at a holiday luncheon for the county department of public health, an FBI Evidence Response Team descended on the couple’s townhouse in nearby Redlands.

She was less like a recluse, more like a bomb going off.

Why do videogames love Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)? Again and again they return to it as a reference point, regardless of genre, regardless of style.

After Kate del Castillo tweeted about the drug lord, he asked her to make a movie about his life. Then she took Sean Penn to see him. By Robert Draper.

Inside the Koch brothers’ campaign to invent a scandal and dismantle the country’s most successful health care system. By Alicia Mundy.

In Chatuchak, Bangkok’s largest outdoor market, smells compete. A bleachy chemical tang replaces a foul suggestion of powdered prawn. This is where you’ll find luxury of spurious origin—Mulberry bags, Lacoste polos, and Tom Ford perfume. There are also pets (lordly tortoises and exhausted rats) and snacks (garlicky sour sausage and thick guava juice). And there are chickens, which, I guess, straddle the pet-snack conceptual divide.

A dermatologist finds fame among those for whom watching a pimple explode recalls the butterflies of a first kiss. By Robert Moor.

A journey to understand how a real-estate agent in the Philippines became the target of a criminal mastermind. By Evan Ratliff. Episode one.

Chesapeake Energy’s co-founder and CEO was a visionary who had trouble following the rules. By Bryan Gruley, Joe Carroll, and Asjylyn Loder.

After a flawed sex assault investigation, a Naval Academy teacher tries to prove he’s innocent. But is he? By John Woodrow Cox.

It is starting to become clear that one of the longest running cons in history is hardly the work of one woman.