How a state that was never in doubt became a “national embarrassment.”

Genetic analysis of human remains found in the Himalayas has raised baffling questions about who these people were and why they were there.

As the wilderness gets overrun, the most hated man in the Rockies finds an audience of emulators and antagonists.

At least 44 Fort Bragg soldiers died stateside in 2020—several of them were homicides. Families want answers. But the Army isn’t giving any.

On vandwelling in the wake of the Great Recession.

Pictet, a 215-year-old firm rooted firmly in the past, finds tension adapting to the modern world.

Gary Haase has amassed the world’s most expensive Pokémon card collection, valued at over $10 million. So why isn’t he cashing in?

Deep in southwest Arkansas is a state park that charges visitors $10 to search for gems that can be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

He covered car accidents for a years as a journalist. Then he was in two himself.

When things go horribly wrong during a stay, the company’s secretive safety team jumps in to soothe guests and hosts, help families—and prevent PR disasters.

In 1976, a school bus carrying 26 children and their driver disappeared from a small California town, capturing the world’s attention.

Fifty years ago, a police shooting set in motion a decades-long chase across the American West.

Fighting the romanticism of owning a home in one of the nation’s most competitive housing markets.

For the past two decades, the micronation of Westarctica has grown in prominence—and is now using its power for something other than Antarctic domination.

Mardi Fuller grew up in a world of swimming lessons and swim teams because of a mysterious death that haunted her family’s past.

“Before I came to Hollywood, I was confidently queer. Years of mixed messages in the industry changed that.”

How MSG became “perhaps the most infamously misunderstood and maligned three letters in the history of food.”

“Turns out your laptop—or camera or gaming system or gold necklace—may have a smidgen of Congo’s pain somewhere in it.”

Jamie Leigh Jones’s story of gang-rape in Iraq changed the law to help victims, even though she might not have been one herself.

Growing up in a Toronto suburb while a serial rapist is on the loose.

A profile of the world’s top photo retoucher, who typically can retouch over 100 images in a single issue of Vogue.

The war between Major League Baseball and Alex Rodriguez, “fought with six-figure payoffs in the tanning salons and strip malls of South Florida.”

A cave in Russia, a long-lost tip of a pinkie bone, and the discovery of a new kind of human being.

A bungled operation in Honduras and the enduring ineffectiveness of America’s war on drugs.

In between projects, the director searches for “that next soul-nourishing gig.”