A local environmental activist fights to prepare her community for life beyond mining.

A leftist journalist’s bruising crusade against establishment Democrats—and their Russia obsession.

Children film themselves chewing, whispering and tapping to give their adult audience an ASMR buzz. But at what cost?

After Julie “Mama Julz” Richards’s own family was nearly destroyed by addiction, fighting back against meth became a personal crusade.

Transition House had to be true to its principles and then it had to leave them behind.

On life after you accomplish your lifelong goal.

Prince had grand plans for his autobiography, but only a few months to live.

What happened when 59-year-old Paralympian Angela Madsen set out to row from California to Hawaii.

An appreciation of the hometown team.

The meanings of coiffure, from follicle to shaft.

The city through the eyes of a four-year-old.

How Zion, Ill., a fundamentalist Christian settlement with a population of 6,250, created one of the most popular stations in the country during the early days of radio.

The story of the 1977 Revolt at Cincinnati, and the men who changed the course of the NRA forever.

A profile of the writer.

The underbelly of Vox Media’s success.

The twilight of a magazine empire.

A profile of the Poo-Pourri creator.

The elegant science of turning cadavers into compost.

He was an early video streaming startup founder who threw parties where celebrities like Bryan Singer had sex with teenage boys. Then, he came to believe that music mogul David Geffen was trying to kill him.

The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League did everything it could to keep lesbians off the diamond. Seventy-five years later, its gay stars are finally opening up.

It seemed like an easy crime to stop: protected Indonesian rainforest, cut for coffee farms. But a globalized economy can undermine even the best-laid plans.

A series of one-sided international love letters.

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Engineer and adventurer Richard Jenkins has made oceangoing robots that could revolutionize fishing, drilling, and environmental science. His aim: a thousand of them.

Al Seckel held legendary parties in the 1980s and 90s, with attendees ranging from Slash to Francis Crick. He later became a collector of optical illusions and gave a TED talk on the topic. He may have also misled and defrauded many of the people he came into contact with.

Madeleine Fullard is on a mission to locate the remains of apartheid’s murdered activists. She needs the help of Eugene de Kock, a former police squad leader known as “Prime Evil,” to do so.