On the perils and poisons of mining for gold in southeastern Peru.

“I didn’t realize who my father was. So it didn’t make a whole lot of difference. I wasn’t there believing that I was receiving genius from on high. My father was my father.”

For a half-century fires have burned under Centralia, PA.

On the lost pickup basketball games in D.C. between Wilt Chamberlain and Elgin Baylor, then both still in college, during the summer of 1957.

On the final two holdouts in Treece, Kansas, a former mining town that is soon to be wiped off the maps.

“Being Justin Bieber means having an endless number of T-shirts to destroy.” A profile of the pop star just after his 18th birthday.

The complicated life of a man with four wives and thirty-one kids.

Carlos De Luna, convicted of murdering gas station clerk Wanda Lopez, was executed in 1989. But was another man named Carlos actually guilty of the crime?

The autopsy of a once-dominant site.

A Kenyan runner loses himself in Alaska.

How one company is rethinking the business of sex toys.