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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.

How legends of the American music industry made millions off the work of Solomon Linda, a Zulu tribesman who wrote “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” and died a pauper.

Elizabeth Anderson thinks we’ve misunderstood the basis of a free and fair society.

A glimpse of life on the suburban road, featuring Russian mobsters, Fox News rage addicts, a caged man in a sex dungeon, and Dick Cheney.

On the true backstory of Meghan Markle, a.k.a. the Duchess of Sussex.

There was no doubt: Jeremy Gross had brutally murdered a convenience store clerk. All that was left to decide was his punishment. Death or life without parole? The story of a capital murder trial, as seen from the jury box.

Five hundred feet below ground with Ohio coal miners.

“Neither of my parents was exactly who I thought they were.”

When Swedish teenagers hacked the phone system and turned a state-owned telecom system into a proto-Internet.

Alex drew his school’s mascot during class.Then he was suspended, arrested and deported. How high schools have embraced the Trump administration’s crackdown on MS-13 and destroyed immigrant students’ American dreams.

On the grueling nature of Chinese restaurant work and the hopes and dreams of the cooks and delivery men who have migrated to the U.S.

On the conspiracy-theorist occupiers at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and how they’re fighting against their own best interests.

With “The Apprentice,” the TV producer mythologized Trump—then a floundering D-lister—as the ultimate titan, paving his way to the Presidency.

They’re known as the Jills. They’re two of America’s top realtors, selling the glitziest mansions in Miami. Then a place went missing—and everyday greed blossomed into full-blown extortion.

A profile of Marlon Brando, 33, holed up in a hotel suite in Kyoto where he was filming Sayonara.

A veteran magazine journalist changes jobs at 57.

A lifelong runner is hit with a mysterious physical breakdown and forced to begin contemplating the end.