When human blood overtakes a house amid racial turmoil in 1987 Atlanta, terrifying the family inside, a mystery opens up that persists to this day.

There are two different tales we tell ourselves about houses. The primary story is not about ghosts or demons or red rooms or ghouls, but rather about bright futures, long lives, children, grandchildren, and hard-earned success. The second story, the darker story, is about the horror of being trapped.

When patients turn to crowdfunding for medical costs, whoever has the most heartrending story wins.

On a Missouri farm, two families worked the land side by side, until a murder shattered their American dream.

An arrangement of convenience in early 20th century Alaska.

“We need a new language for talking about poverty. ‘Nobody who works should be poor,’ we say. That’s not good enough. Nobody in America should be poor, period.”

On the country’s poorest.

The infuriating tale of Muncie, Indiana: When public institutions fail.