Crime

The Secret Web: Where Drugs, Porn and Murder Live Online

By Lev Grossman and Jay Newton-Small

Gun Land: Chicago's South Side by Justin Maxon

By David Von Drehle

Pistorius and South Africa's Culture of Violence

By Alex Perry

Auto Defensa: Rough Justice in Mexico's Lawless Mountains

By Ross McDonnell
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What America's War on Drugs Looked Like in 1969

With pot sales now legal in Colorado, LIFE.com recalls the early days of America's War on Drugs -- and the arguments both for and against legalization from four decades ago.

By Ben Cosgrove

Mickey Cohen: Gangster in the Sun

LIFE.com offers a series of photos -- most of which never ran in LIFE -- featuring Mickey Cohen, the legendary L.A. mobster.

By Ben Cosgrove

The Manson Family on Trial: Madness Visible

The ferocity of the Manson Family murders — and the chilling, bottomless weirdness of the Manson cult -- incised a terrible, indelible black mark on the late 1960s.

By Ben Cosgrove and Liz Ronk

Witness Scenes From the Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

12 people were killed and dozens injured

By TIME Photo

Blood on the Mat

The killing of an Olympic gold medalists suggest that John du Pont, patron of wrestling, was no angel

By John Greenwald
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