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For years, rural Guatemalans traveled thousands of miles for jobs in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. A series of immigration raids is creating havoc in a town desperate for workers.

A young girl befriends a vampire bat.

What it’s like to be too big in America.

In many parts of America, like Corinth, Miss., judges are locking up defendants who can’t pay—sometimes for months at a time.

For decades, Jeffrey Lendrum went to extreme lengths to snatch falcon eggs from their nests and sell them to the highest bidder. Then he got caught.

The unsolved mystery of the soldier who died in the watchtower.

How we respond to the rules of the road offers insight into being human.

Alaska can show us the way.

How Black America talks to the White House.

“It is a John Wick training montage, but with teachers wearing T-shirts with elementary-school mascots or “This is what an AWESOME SCIENCE TEACHER looks like” emblazoned across the front.”

“Antarctica, the only continent without a Michelin star, has never been a destination for fine dining.”

On the plight of the baobab tree.

A profile of the climber and thief Vjeran Tomic, dubbed Spider-Man by the French press, who describes robbery as an act of imagination.

“We are beginning to understand what ails us, and it’s not something an oxygen facial or a treadmill desk can fix.”

The agonies of being overweight—or running a diet company—in a culture that likes to pretend it only cares about health, not size.

How an undercover oil industry mercenary tricked pipeline opponents into believing he was one of them.

In the wings of this great drama were the unseen. Hidden in the rainforest where the violence was staged, in the eerie aftermath of the tragedy, were three people whose stories cue political contexts in both the US and Guyana crucial to understanding how and why Jonestown may have happened.

As R. Kelly’s career flourished, an industry overlooked allegations of abusive behavior toward young women.

Justin Alexander went searching for higher meaning. No one expected the quest to end in a search for his body.

What happens when an adoption fails?

Reprint: the aftermath of a mental breakdown.

Women’s recruitment into elite commandos, formed in response to post-9/11 terrorism, was not driven by a desire for diversity in the workplace, but by the need to conduct raids and arrest militants without alienating local communities.

The untold story of how anger became the dominant emotion in our politics and personal lives—and what we can do about it.

Inside Iraq’s most notorious prison, an Army interrogator named Joshua Casteel came fact to face with a truth about the war—and himself.