“I admit it,” she says, in her hotel room. “I’m a troll. I’m the queen of the fucking trolls.”

The parents indicted in the college-admissions scandal were responding to a changing America, with rage at being robbed of what they believed was rightfully theirs.

Thea Hunter was a promising, brilliant scholar. And then she got trapped in academia’s permanent underclass.

What happened when Pete Buttigieg tore down houses in Black and Latino South Bend.

How coach Gregg Popovich’s love of fine wine led to a 20-year run of success in the NBA.

In a supermax facility on US soil, inmates are force fed—and barred from sharing their stories.

Decades of greed, neglect, corruption, and bad politics led to last year’s Paradise fire, the worst in California history.

He dreamed of educating the children in his village. But soon he learned that it was dangerous for the Rohingya to dream.

Housing insecurity in the nation’s richest cities is far worse than government statistics claim. Just ask the Goodmans.

What the opioid crisis has done to one indigenous family in Alaska–the writer’s.

Decades on, a massive half-built monument in the Black Hills remains controversial.

Scientists in Brazil are trying to save the giant anteater from a growing threat: roads.

“I always said that when my time came I’d want to go fast. But where’s the fun in that?”

A Navajo girl was exploited and sex trafficked in urban and rural New Mexico. Why did so many fail to help her?

The discovery of a legendary, lost shipwreck in North America has pitted treasure hunters and archaeologists against each other, raising questions about who should control sunken riches.

“What I learned about masculinity from my father, my father-in-law and my own transition.”

The author unearths the story of Frank Yerby, one of the the most prolific African-American novelists in history.

The U.S. may end up with the worst COVID-19 outbreak in the industrialized world. This is how it’s going to play out.

An early profile of Carole Baskin, proprietor of Big Cat Rescue in Tampa.

Antoine Yates spent three years living in New York City public housing with a 450-pound Siberian tiger named Ming.

A cooking column for people with AIDS claimed the right to pleasure, but in each recipe was embedded an urgent appeal.

The rise and fall of Quayside, a futuristic city concept that Google’s Sidewalk Labs planned to build in neglected part of Toronto.

In 1944, an eighteen year old boy became famous for throwing eggs at Frank Sinatra. Then he disappeared.

Florida’s tourism economy crashed, leaving dozens of low-wage workers trapped in a crumbling motel without electricity.

Humans have always sensed the ghosts of loved ones. It’s only in the last century that we convinced ourselves this was a problem.