What happens after a defendant is found not guilty by reason of insanity? Often the answer is involuntary confinement in a state psychiatric hospital—with no end in sight.

On the underground doctors unleashing the healing powers of hallucinogens.

What sex workers think about legalizing sex work.

A support group for trans veterans meets in New Orleans, linked to the only VA that is known to treat them with respect.

Locals on the Outer Banks are arguing about whether climate change is real. Meanwhile, their islands are disappearing.

It wasn’t easy, or cheap.

The art of the voiceover.

Why do Syrian civilians in a Turkish camp live in relative luxury?

“It’s insanity to kill your father with a kitchen knife. It’s also insanity to close hospitals, fire therapists, and leave families to face mental illness on their own.”

A trip to an uncompromising cattle ranch.

Tracking down a Congolese war criminal.

How PTSD spreads from returning soldiers to their families.

Confronting homophobia in Uganda.

A reporter on how violent sex helped ease her PTSD.

On reservations, where policing hardly exists, bruiser-for-hire vigilantes are often the first choice for justice.

A first-person account of the author’s time spent volunteering with a group of Burmese activists in Thailand, who turn out to be not Korean but in fact Karen, members of Burma’s persecuted ethnic minority. In the course of her time there, they show her videos of their risky forays across the border, and she shows them MySpace.

On the utter brutality of life in the tent cities, one year after the earthquake.