The incentives for and ethics of writing other people’s books.

Searching for the source of British Columbia’s grim flotsam.

What does it mean for the rest of life on Earth?

Amazon’s internal injury records expose the true toll of its relentless drive for speed.

From 1968-1973, the three teenage Wiggin sisters, guided by a domineering father, played their strange music at New Hampshire ballrooms and recorded a single album. The Philosophy of the World LP goes for over $500 today, but the intervening decades have not been kind to the Wiggins.

Job Cohen, the current mayor of Amsterdam, is leading the Dutch race for Prime Minister on a platform of racial integration that could transform the relationship between European politics and immigration.

Buyers from all over America—some of whom had never heard of the Illinois town—came searching for wealth amid the Rust Belt ruins.

A pastor-turned-banker fakes his own death after allegedly embezzling millions and defrauding investors.

A lesson in ethics.

A pivotal Civil Rights rally recalled, 50 years later.

An exploited celebrity’s long journey home.

How a 27-year-old went from PR underling to gatekeeper.

A reporter learns to slice lox—and digs into a Los Angeles landmark’s millions in debt.

Among other things, crows can recognize human faces—and train each other to avoid people they don’t like.

Learning to live in Earth’s coldest conditions.

A leftist journalist’s bruising crusade against establishment Democrats—and their Russia obsession.

Children film themselves chewing, whispering and tapping to give their adult audience an ASMR buzz. But at what cost?

After Julie “Mama Julz” Richards’s own family was nearly destroyed by addiction, fighting back against meth became a personal crusade.

What prompts a woman to exit society and marry God? Inside a modern convent in Texas.

Transition House had to be true to its principles and then it had to leave them behind.

On life after you accomplish your lifelong goal.

What happened when 59-year-old Paralympian Angela Madsen set out to row from California to Hawaii.

When he was 2, Strider was severely beaten by his mother’s boyfriend. Today, at 6, Strider lives with his grandparents in rural Maine, in and out of poverty, trying to make it.

Oskar Groening, an SS officer whose duties included counting confiscated money, describes his time posted to Auschwitz.