Shulamith Firestone, one of the first radical feminists, helped to create a new society. But she couldn’t live in it.

The quiet life of Brigette Höss, 80, whose father ran Auschwitz.

The case of a teenager who didn’t kill his classmates—but talked about it.

Steven Donziger, an American lawyer, headed up a successful lawsuit against Chevron on behalf of Ecuadorans. Then the legal tables turned on him.

The challenge of finding answers about some abandoned cremains.

The story of a transplant from a 26-year-old bike mechanic to a 41-year-old fireman with severe burns.

The drugs did not entirely deliver on their promise of anxiety reduction.

An email dialogue between David Gates and Jonathan Lethem on writing fiction in the age of online experiences.

Inside the dual legacies of NFL players’ union boss DeMaurice Smith.

The U.S. is one of only two countries that don’t guarantee paid maternity leave. As a result, women across the country are rushing back to work after C-sections and losing their positions in order to take care of newborns.

“This is the story of the past three years of my life. It’s romance in a way, but it’s also a breakup story.”

Life on an oil rig in the Arctic.

Being injured in the NFL.

On realizing you’re going to die.

“Around here the land swallows things.”

To date, more than 500 people have been killed by police in America. This is the story of one, Charly Keunang.

For migrants who speak Mayan languages, a grassroots group of interpreters is often their only hope for receiving asylum.

Thanks to a single court case, the state of Maryland is releasing almost 150 violent offenders who believed they would spend their life behind bars.

In 2009, three followers of an Oprah-endorsed motivational speaker named James Arthur Ray died in an Arizona sweat lodge. Now, after serving two years in prison for negligent homicide, Ray is trying to get back on the self-help circuit.

On the expanding community of American parents who believe, despite abundant evidence to the contrary, that there is a link between routine vaccinations and autism.

After years of outsourcing, many essential staff work for the NHS without receiving its benefits. In one London hospital, the fight is on for a better deal.

She escaped a crazed psychopath at 16. Decades later, as the BTK serial killer terrorizes Wichita, she has to run for her life again. The identity of her tormentor is too chilling to believe.

Oral histories from the California wildfires.

A profile of Bob Fishman, the impresario of CBS’s NFL production crew.