The author visits Camp Trans, an annual protest organized after the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival evicted a transsexual woman.

How OxyContin permeated one small town.

On the holy city of Canudos, and other attempts at better living “by the dispossessed and marginalized the world over.”

A legal battle over stolen computer monitors ends one man’s career and the lives of three others.

In the days following Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination, more than 100 cities experienced significant civil disturbance. In New York, everyone expected riots. What happened next.

On Hezbollah leader Imad Mughniyeh, “the world’s most wanted terrorist not named Osama bin Laden,” whose death five years ago remains a mystery.

The brief life and complicated death of Tommy Lasorda’s gay son.

A profile of the country music legend.

The story of three peace activists — a drifter, an 82-year-old nun and a house painter — who penetrated the exterior of Y-12 in Tennessee, supposedly one of the most secure nuclear-weapons facilities in the United States.

A captured bank robber makes a remarkable claim.