Turning down the huge amounts of money a fracking contract can offer is always the beginning of a fight.

The story of Thor Holm Hansen—”Norwegian country singer, a former Outlaws motorcycle chieftain, and an ‘ambassador at large’ to a rebel Haitian government”—who claims to be back in Florida to locate his missing daughter.

Anatomy of an international incident; how three idealistic young American hikers wandered across the Kurdistan-Iran border and ended up in Iranian prison charged with spying.

Scientists predict Tangier Island could be uninhabitable within 25 years. This is the story of the people willing to go down with it.

In an old mine an hour north of Pittsburgh, 600 federal employees manage paperwork for the government’s retirement system. By hand. On paper. Without computers. The same exact way they always have.

They’re known as the Jills. They’re two of America’s top realtors, selling the glitziest mansions in Miami. Then a place went missing—and everyday greed blossomed into full-blown extortion.

The challenges facing the historians of the internet.

On Graham Greene, the master of “ethical ambivalence.”

There is no script for losing a spouse in your 30s.

The postscript to a miracle.

When American and Iraqi soldiers were exposed to leftover chemical munitions from Saddam Hussein’s war against Iran, the Pentagon kept silent.

“I tell them it’s like driving a car at night: you never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”

A draft dodger invents a pop music career for himself – without recording any songs.

First they found his server, then they found his name. But if they couldn’t catch him with his laptop open, the whole thing would fall apart.

What’s wrong with some forgery, fraud, and crystal meth if you’ll soon be gone? A better question: What the hell happens if you survive?

One man’s quest to have a healthy leg amputated.

A woman posing as a non-profit worker kidnaps a formerly homeless pregnant woman and tries to claim her baby. [PART 1]

A psychological theory emerges to explain why young Americans are taking a while to grow up.

If you want to see what a world without Roe looks like, look at Mississippi.

The central witness in “one of the biggest cases of white-collar crime in American history” speaks out.

The enigmatic life and death of Bruno Zehnder, who obsessively photographed penguins in the ice fields outside of a Russian base in Antarctica.

Profiles of Vietnam veterans several years after returning home.

On the “unfair significance” of Jeremy Lin.