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What’s at stake in the fight over development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge? A caribou herd, and a culture that relies on it.

After Stephanie Montgomery says she was raped at the strip club where she worked, she went to the manager and the police. Nothing happened. That’s when she decided to tell her story as big as she could.

Vivia, an intellectually disabled woman, had long wanted a child but decided instead to adopt a doll.

Young immigrants who have been separated from their parents find a home at the Children’s Center.

Klamath Country, Oregon, is the perfect place to disappear–and also a very dangerous place when someone is threatening your life.

The Permian Basin is booming with oil. But at what cost to West Texans? Though some will reap serious profits, the region’s dealing with skyrocketing rents, overcrowded schools, and potholes as big as VW Beetles.

Now Peter Max’s associates are trading lurid allegations of kidnapping, hired goons, attempted murder by Brazil nut and art fraud on the high seas.

Bennington College in the 1980s was a hothouse of sex, drugs, and future literary stars—among them, Donna Tartt, Bret Easton Ellis, and Jonathan Lethem. Return to a campus and an era like no other.

For the past two decades, a suicide epidemic fueled by guns, poverty and isolation has swept across the West, with middle-aged men dying in record numbers.

A political kidnapping.

How much does the world need to know about a deadly bear attack? That question was tested in the Yukon last year, after the horrific loss of a mother and daughter caused a destructive media storm.

“Incels” are going under the knife to reshape their faces, and their dating prospects.

Inside the dysfunctional world of the Los Angeles Lakers.

Last summer, Arthur Medici went surfing off the coast of Cape Cod. He never made it back.

Gabriel Zucman is an economist who specializes in documenting and estimating the wealth stashed in offshore accounts. His work has influenced the tax plans of more than one presidential campaign.

Wolf-trapping school in Alaska.

Lyra McKee’s last story.

A migrant family takes a Greyhound across America.

Meet the Edward Snowden of European soccer.

A profile of a 25-year-old Spanish sensation.

Despite what dementia has stolen from the cerebral creator of Deadwood, it has given his work a new sense of urgency.

She moved to Cape Cod to escape the glitzy Manhattan world she born into. The only witness to her murder was her 2-year-old daughter. Everyone she knew, it seemed, was a suspect.

Burmese amber offers paleontologists an unprecedented glimpse into the Cretaceous. But it comes from a conflict zone.

What’s wrong with some forgery, fraud, and crystal meth if you’ll soon be gone? A better question: What the hell happens if you survive?