Activists insist that police departments must change. For half a century, New York City’s P.B.A. has successfully resisted such demands.

In a Los Angeles suburb where schools and parents faltered, the American Dream was replaced by drugs, neo-Nazism, and despair.

On the ubiquity of forest fires.

It won’t be easy.

Joe Arpaio is tough on prisoners and undocumented immigrants. What about crime?

A journey through Venezuela, once the richest country in South America, but now collapsing under the weight of the world’s highest rates of inflation and violent crime.

Surfing San Francisco with a true believer.

Growing up among the tall waves and schoolyard bullies of Hawaii.

There’s still a gold rush on in the Andes.

Inside the fast-food labor protests.

How Cassandro, who wrestles in drag, became a star Mexican luchadore.

A profile of Gina Rinehart, the richest person in Australia.

Crime, drugs, and politics in Guadalajara.

A decorated Iraq war veteran with PTSD kills his brother and himself after a high-speed chase near the Grand Canyon.