Inside the world of dark tourism, where for just $2,500 you too could be responsible for a geopolitical calamity.

Five Mexican fishermen head out with enough supplies for several days. They’re gone for nine months. A story of survival in the South Pacific.

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

A profile of the Aurora shooter.

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.

A Ranger graduate breaks down an ordeal that shapes some of the nation’s finest soldiers.

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

Being injured in the NFL.

On realizing you’re going to die.

“Around here the land swallows things.”

“Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to make the meaning clearer. It consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug.”

As part of his obsessive search for evidence of UFOs, Gary McKinnon worked his way into thousands of government computers. The U.S. charged him with terrorism. Doctors diagnosed him with Asperger’s. And his lawyers started arguing a new version of the insanity defense.

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

The extraordinary story of two Pacific voyages of discovery a thousand years apart.

A profile of the Navy Seal who killed Osama bin Laden and came home to a life in shambles.