More than 15% of Detroit’s adults have asthma, and 82% of black students go to schools in the most polluted parts of the city.

Who authorized the bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan, and why?

After a murder in the California wilderness, the search for the killer raises complicated questions about mental illness.

In the last year alone, over 150,000 people have risked their lives to leave.

Two days with a group of white nationalists in Kentucky.

Was the attack outside of the LeBaron compound really by a cartel?

Many young South Koreans were beginning to live in isolation years before the rest of the world joined them.

When model Kimberly Fattorini died after a night out in Hollywood, everyone assumed she’d accidentally overdosed. But there was more to the story.

Musicians are in peril, at the mercy of giant monopolies that profit off their work.

In Kabul, one of the world’s most dangerous cities, one man works to help Afghan migrants return to a place they never knew.

On Michael Jackson’s talent.

A report from the campaign trail.

A history of food poisoning.

100 miles, 24 hours.

A work trip to Turkmenistan.

Possible clues about Lincoln’s murder in the unlikeliest place.

The backstory of “The Duke in His Domain,” Truman Capote’s 1957 New Yorker profile of Marlon Brando.

In 1945, a fire tore through the home of George and Jennie Sodder. Four children escaped; five vanished.

A lesson in ethics.

A generation that has seen inestimable violence comes of age in Juarez.

A 27-year old reporter is kidnapped in Somalia and held hostage for over a year.

What the CIA really knew about Robert Levinson, a retired FBI agent who disappeared in 2007.

Embedded with a U.S. bomb squad in Baghdad.

The story that inspired The Hurt Locker.

On Norman Bel Geddes, pioneer of miniatures and maker of the “most iconic World’s Fair exhibit of all time.”

Testimonies about the Soviet war in Afghanistan, reported by the 2015 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature.