An earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest. The question is when. By Kathryn Schulz.

An outbreak of cholera in Haiti that began in 2010 is still killing people. Why have attempts to get it under control failed? Rose George reports.

"A former prisoner describes what it’s like to actually eat the food at a Detroit-area jail; the failings of Aramark, the company the Michigan Department of Corrections contracts for food service; and the thriving underground economy that supplements state-issued meals."

Revising Old Hollywood’s Greatest Scandal. By Anne Helen Petersen.

Revolutionizing American agribusiness from the ground up, one seed at a time.

An epidemic broke out in 2010—and even after years of working to curb the spread of the disease, it's still killing people. Five years on, cholera has killed nearly 9,000 Haitians. More than 730,000 people have been infected. It is the worst outbreak of the disease, globally, in modern history. Hundreds of emergency and development workers have been working alongside the Haitian government for five years, trying to rid the country of cholera...

Revisiting Steinbeck's California. By Gabriel Thompson.

Dr. Gregory Konrath seemed like a good catch to his girlfriend. After she recorded the surgeon plotting to kill his ex-wife, police thought so, too.

Jeff Sharlet embeds on Skid Row (a.k.a. a police “containment” zone) and re-creates a life whose only public recognition is in the tragic way that it ended.

Like something out of a daytime soap opera, two sets of identical twins are switched at birth and grow up in drastically different living situations. This article is pretty long but an interesting read.

Appalled by migrant deaths in the Mediterranean, Chris Catrambone bought a boat and launched his own rescue mission. But as he discovered, there are pitfalls to going it alone.

Richard Glossip, the lead plaintiff in Glossip v. Gross, the Supreme Court decision that legalized a controversial form of lethal injection, now faces death — but he may well be innocent.

The United States trumpets education as one of its shining successes of the war in Afghanistan. But a BuzzFeed News investigation reveals U.S. claims were often outright lies...

Inside the lightning-fast, wildly absurd, occasionally terrifying world of app-based teenage white supremacy.

Barack Obama's former top cop cashes in after six years of letting banks run wild. By Matt Taibbi.

Prejudice against the medieval runs deep. It is an adjective applied to atrocity, severe punishment, out-of-date technology (this “medieval” typewriter), and all illiberal attitudes. For many, the Middle Ages are ineradicably reprehensible, as well as comic: knights immobilized in their armor, fat monks panting after licentious nuns, ladies locked into chastity belts... By Eric Christiansen.

For nearly thirty years, a phantom haunted the woods of Central Maine. Unseen and unknown, he lived in secret, creeping into homes in the dead of night and surviving on what he could steal. To the spooked locals, he became a legend—or maybe a myth. They wondered how he could possibly be real. Until one day last year, the hermit came out of the forest

Scott Storch raked in hip-hop millions. Then he snorted his way to ruin.

Dr. Soe Maunglay's discovery of his employer Dr. Farid Fata's web of deceit and medical fraud would unleash a federal investigation. The result would save lives and collapse the medical empire of the long-esteemed oncologist, now awaiting sentencing in federal court.