Learning to love music—and to hate it, too.

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

An investigation into the practice of putting teenagers in solitary confinement.

Three Americans are held hostage in Iran for two years, much of it spent in solitary confinement.

A pro-Ukraine activist goes silent in separatist-held Donetsk. A foreign correspondent goes looking for him.

The agriculture industry has known for 40 years that using antibiotics can create superbugs. Only one company has taken the science seriously.

A cook fights for his sight while reopening his famous restaurant.

Looking for answers in India after a seeker disappears and his guide commits suicide.

Trump’s Commerce pick and a government by, and for, the super-rich.

Joe Arridy had an IQ of 46. In 1939, he was executed for a crime he neither understood nor committed.

How an obscure Australian judge and a hard-charging lawyer put the S&P on trial for the global financial collapse.

A profile of Frank Lucas, whose life was the basis for the film American Gangster, decades after his days as a kingpin.

A year with a high school support group for boys who have lost a parent.

What the writer’s newly revealed letters mean for her long-debated legacy.

But not for want of programmers trying.

Inmates work for hours each day and yet have no labor rights.

On PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, and the experience of covering AIDS in Africa.

Meeting Christopher Thomas Knight, a.k.a. the North Pond Hermit, who lived alone in the Maine woods for nearly 30 years.

The on and offline search for the prime suspect in last month’s celebrity nude photo hacking scandal.

The “insane playfulness, deliberate infantilism, nutty haikus, naked stripteases, free-form chants and literary war dances of the beats” and their leader.

If jobs as we’ve known them for a century are going away, what will replace them?

For a time, NGOs thought they’d eradicated the disease. But now it’s back.

The search for an Iraq veteran on the brink of suicide.

The search for the missing Holocaust hero began in 1945. The unending quest tore his family apart.