In the wake of a vicious murder, the state of Oregon wrestles with what went wrong in its mental health system.

Gabriel Jiménez built Nicolás Maduro a digital coin and nearly paid with his life.

The explorers who set one of the last meaningful records on earth.

On the anti-communist genocide known by the Indonesian Army as Operation Annihilation.

A theatre company has spent years bringing catharsis to the traumatized. In the coronavirus era, that’s all of us.

Before a disastrous blight, the American chestnut was a keystone species in eastern forests. Could genetic engineering help bring it back?

For decades, flying saucers were a punch line. Then the U.S. government got over the taboo.

The death of the woman he loved was too much to bear. Could a mysterious website allow him to speak with her once more?

Meet Me @ the Altar want to be household names—and that’s not a crazy notion.

Scandal, conspiracy, and cover-ups in the theft of the “Irish Crown Jewels” from Dublin Castle.

The story of imprisoned boxer James Scott, who contended for the light heavyweight title by staging fights inside Rahway prison.

How the Ovitzs, a family of Jewish dwarves from Transylvania, survived Auschwitz.

There is someone whose job it is to try to extract royalty money from anyone who plays music in a place of business. Most people do not react well to this request.

“There are some things nobody needs in this world, and a bright-red, hunch-back, warp-speed 900cc cafe racer is one of them—but I want one anyway, and on some days I actually believe I need one. That is why they are dangerous.”

Will Vinton created the California Raisins, coined the term “claymation” and had a firm making $28 million a year in the late 1990s. By 2002, he was out of a job, replaced by a failed rapper who had gone by the name “Chilly Tee” and also happened to be the son of Nike co-founder Phil Knight.

In November 2012, Salvador Alvarenga went fishing off the coast of Mexico. Two days later, a storm hit and he made a desperate SOS. It was the last anyone heard from him—for 438 days.

The symptoms are here: multiyear droughts, large-scale crop failures, a major city—Cape Town—on the verge of going dry, increasing outbreaks of violence, fears of full-scale water wars. The big question: How do we keep the water flowing?

How the Bounty, a busted-up replica built in 1960 for the film Mutiny on the Bounty, ended up 100 miles out to sea during the height of Hurricane Sandy.

Following the hunters and poachers, servers and saviors of the little-known pangolin—a scaly, endangered creature sold by the thousands on the black market.

This past Memorial Day weekend, Steven T. Florio, the president and CEO of Conde Nast Publications, made a dramatic change at The New Yorker, the most illustrious of the 17 magazines he runs for billionaire S.I. "Si" Newhouse Jr. He fired his own brother.

A 2003 essay that foreshadows the emergence of the Islamic State a decade later – an insurgency incited by American policy in Iraq during the early days of the war.

Three years ago, Shell spent millions to send a colossal oil rig to drill in the remote seas of the Arctic. But the Arctic had other plans.

How Billy Walters, the world’s most successful gambler, keeps winning.