A small town in Nebraska promised a warm welcome to a family of Katrina evacuees. It didn’t last.

The struggles of Xavier University, a tiny, historically-black school in New Orleans, to train students for medical school.

The final days of the last Navy SEAL to die in Afghanistan.

Winona Ryder has always been trapped in her own anticipatory nostalgia, and the public has always wanted to keep her there.

“The Anonymous mystique had allowed a group of incompetents to hijack, then discredit, an important grassroots movement in the eyes of national media.”

How Sinclair Broadcast Group bent the rules, bought politicians, and faked the news to become one of the largest independent owners of television stations in America.

Football-related brain damage made Rickie Harris fall from the heights of the NFL to serving a DUI sentence in his ex-wife’s basement.

The Beastie Boys on tour in Los Angeles shortly after the release of their debut album, Licensed to Ill.

For most people who participate in clinical trials, being a guinea pig is just a way to make a quick buck. For others, it’s a career.

How Cantor Fitzgerald is bringing the principles of day trading to sports betting in Vegas.

On the enduring racial segregation in Chicago and why it’s an issue no mayoral candidate is willing to touch.

From 2009 to 2014, police in Florida shot 827 people. Many of these incidents were avoidable and unnecessary.

West Virginia has the highest overdose death rate in the country. Locals are fighting to save their neighbors—and their towns—from destruction.

There are just a handful of people using iron lungs in the U.S. And the machines they rely on to live are wearing out.

He was the consensus #1 pick in last year’s NBA draft. Then, seemingly overnight, he forgot how to shoot.

Thirty years ago, a series of documentaries introduced the world to an isolated tribe in Papua New Guinea. What happened when the cameras left?

David Boies argued Bush v. Gore all the way to the Supreme Court. He lost the case, but in the process gained another client: Harvey Weinstein.

The true story of M Company: from Fort Dix to Vietnam in 50 days.

The state loses a football field’s worth of land every hour and a half. Now engineers are in a race to prevent it from sinking into oblivion.

Inside the struggle to survive in a tiny Honduran neighborhood surrounded by competing gangs.

An academic in Calgary lives an extreme low-carbon lifestyle. But he really doesn’t want to make you feel weird about it.

The Badger State is designed to keep Republicans in power, at the expense of the minority vote.

In her pandemic summer, a college student retreated to a cabin on an island, and a job on a lobster boat.

How billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Warren Buffett pay so little in income tax compared to their massive wealth—sometimes, even nothing.

In 2015, Tom Turcich set out to circumnavigate the globe by foot. He has been walking ever since.