An eight-year campaign to slash the agency’s budget has left it understaffed, hamstrung and operating with archaic equipment. The result: billions less to fund the government. That’s good news for corporations and the wealthy.

The dramatic imbalance in pay and power has created the conditions for abuse.

A report from the Philippines, “the test lab for fake news.”

For nearly a century, an oak in a German forest has helped lonely people find love—including the mailman who delivers its letters.

A last-gasp FEMA camp for wildfire survivors tests the government’s obligations to the displaced.

Navigating the sewers of London and summiting the peaks of Paris with a group of urban explorers.

John Demjanjuk has had a huge year. Twenty years after being sentenced to die, he finally climbed to the pinnacle of the Wiesenthal Center's list of Nazi war criminals this April, shortly after the Germans filed the arrest warrant that allowed the OSI to put him on the jet to Munich.

Lily gets ready for her first date.

Developed by early computer engineers in their spare time, improved in University comp-sci labs, and ultimately sold in coffeeshops for ten cents per game. Inside one of the most influential games ever played.

Those who survived tell the story of twenty three ISIS hostages’ shared months of brutal captivity before some were ransomed and some executed.

The story of Christopher and Jeffrey George, the twin proprietors of a pain clinic empire.

The short-lived literary career of Breece DʼJ Pancake and his roadmap to a world of oppressive poverty.

The island of Coiba off the coast of Panama is both a nature preserve and an open-air prison.

After Fukushima, balancing the risk of another disaster against the rising danger of climate change.

On Tse Chi Lop, “the Jeff Bezos of the drug trade” and ringleader of a $21-billion crime syndicate.

Is creativity in our genes? A self-made scholar’s search for the answer.

It involves a former 1960s bondage film actress, a Jewish neo-Nazi, the husband of the speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives, and a whole lot of creative marketing.

We ate in our own restaurants, stayed in our own hotels, and hired our own guides. We moved through a parallel Paris—and a parallel Rome, Milan, and so on.

The reporter takes a whirlwind guided bus tour of a Europe with a group of Chinese tourists.

The case of Brett Kimberlin.

The story of twelve men trapped in a West Virginia mine, as remembered by the lone survivor.