How a man of little education and little means invented a simple machine that changed the lives of women in rural India.

Searching for the mysterious tree kangaroo in one of the most remote places on Earth.

On the discovery of a billion dollars worth of artwork looted by Nazis in the cramped apartment of a Munich recluse.

On children accused of sorcery in Congo.

The strange life of Boston Corbett, the soldier who killed John Wilkes Booth in 1865.

What it means to be an entrepreneur in Argentina, where economic crashes are a way of life.

The coldest of cases: During 1884-85, seven women and one man were brutally murdered in Austin, Texas.

On the culture of plastic surgery in Los Angeles, and how the reporter’s life changed when she got a pair of fake boobs.

When the greatest players in the world go head-to-head, things can get downright angsty.

A tony bedroom community in Los Angeles, a kidnapping gone horribly wrong, and the birth of a teenage fugitive.

An interview with the author.

"We live in a frightened time and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions. That is one of the great damaging aspects of what has happened in the last 20 years. Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.' I am a writer. I write books."

A log of the 32 shitless hours that the author spent in the Tombs prison after being arrested during an Occupy Wall Street protest.

A portrait of three high school kids in Arizona forced to live on their own after SB 1070.

The author tracks down a former Peace Corps volunteer who murdered a fellow worker in 1976.

How prison changed the mother and militant who was sentenced to 75 years for her role in a deadly 1981 Brinks truck heist.

Protests against the Putin regime are already drawing over 100,000 in sub-zero weather; what will they become when spring arrives?

Ed Rosenthal recounts the six days he got lost in Joshua Tree National Park.

On the perils and poisons of mining for gold in southeastern Peru.

A profile of the singer as he returns to the stage for the first time in a dozen years.

On life in Los Angeles, and the specter of a second riot.

On the legal history of LSD in America and a researcher who never gave up on the drug’s promise.

Life inside a provincial Russian drug den. Originally appeared in Russky Reporter.