The story of a small town just outside Pittsburgh that has suffered through a half-century of economic decline, racial tension, and endless crime. Despite that trajectory, or perhaps because of it, Aliquippa has also produced an astounding number of NFL players.
How an entire industry built itself convincing lead-paint poisoning victims to sign over settlement payments for a fraction of what they’re worth.
The people who survived Katrina, ten years later.
The search for an Iraq veteran on the brink of suicide.
The sailboat dreams of two octogenarian Brooklyn brothers.
The chaos of a group home in Long Beach, California.
Visiting the treasures – bear skulls, footprints, an ancient emerald necklace – that surfaced with shipwrecks at Yenikapi in Turkey.
The Pope’s vision for addressing climate change.
The three men vying to be the next publisher of the New York Times.
The rise and fall of the “fact crime magazine.”
Memories of living with the writer Andrew Lytle late in his life.
A culture war is raging between the people diversifying science fiction and the men who’d like to roll that back.
How an apartheid-era psychiatrist went from torturing gay soldiers in South Africa to sexually abusing patients in Canada.
Kathy Phipps was “rescued” by FEMA. Ten years later, she is so anxious she’s confined to her house.
The most powerful man in publishing, unfiltered.
A profile of the Whole Foods CEO, who, despite a rash of problems with his company, firmly believes he’s seen the future of American business.
On the underground economy of full-service Southern California apartment complexes marketed to Chinese birth-tourists.
The 52-year-old designer finds himself at a crossroads.
Investigating an infamous Yale secret society.
The running back’s life since he was indicted on charges of beating his son and suspended from the NFL.
The meaning of Selena, 20 years after her death.
“What it means — for the reporting we do, for the brands we represent, and for our own mental health — that we don’t stop being black people when we’re working as black reporters. That we quite literally have skin in the game.”
Theft and magic in the early 20th century.
Tracking down the very best in Grateful Dead concert concessions.
The Academy of Art University in San Francisco is very profitable for the family who runs it. But not so much for the students who attend in hopes of becoming artists.
