A travelogue through the contradiction-rich and predominantly Muslim Southern Thailand.

Thea Hunter was a promising, brilliant scholar. And then she got trapped in academia’s permanent underclass.

Big-riggers who make sometimes less than minimum wage are locked legal fights with the unregulated leasing industry.

To understand the state’s urban-rural divide, start by looking at Yamhill County’s proposed walking trail.

Since she first started working in the hospitality industry two decades ago, Vida Afram has cleaned nearly 60,000 hotel rooms.

As a right-wing terrorist cell went on a seven-year killing spree, did authorities look the other way?

After the 1919 Black Sox scandal, Ring Lardner, America’s first great sportswriter, walked away from the game.

When the Arlee Warriors cleared an astonishing path to the state basketball championship, they brought healing to the community.

Harland Sanders left home when he was 13. He once gunned a man down in the street for painting over one of his signs. During the war, he fed the scientists who created the atomic bomb. And then, in his 60s and going by the moniker Colonel Sanders, he began selling fried chicken.

“And the Holocaust trumps art every time.”

A refugee survives the Rwandan genocide and finds a future in Atlanta.

The Tacoma Refugee Choir founder didn’t anticipate its impact on her—or her city.

Right-wing militias brace for civil conflict.

“The Farsi Island mission was a gross failure, involving issues that have plagued the Navy in recent years: inadequate training, poor leadership, and a disinclination to heed the warnings of its men and women about the true extent of its vulnerabilities.”

In 1980 a convicted con-man named Melvin Weinberg was sent by the FBI to offers bribes to U.S. Congressmen on behalf of a phony Arab sheik. The Abscam, short for ‘Abdul Scam’, sting brought down for several representatives, but longtime politician John Murtha narrowly avoided offering a bribe on camera.

Nearing the end of his career, a Canadian tycoon named Michael DeGroote went for one last deal, investing $100 million to build a Las Vegas in the Dominican Republic. His partners? Two brothers with a criminal past, a con man and an old friend with close ties to the mob.

“It’s Tuesday, it’s February, it’s my first day back at work after a week on vacation. I notice the candle in the foyer just as the whoosh of the door blows it out. They never did that for my birthday, I think as I walk past reception.”

A few months after working at Ground Zero, Kurt Sonnenfeld became a suspect in the mysterious and high-profile death of his wife. He got off, barely, and started a new life in South America. But when the U.S. tried to bring him back to face charges, Sonnenfeld went to the local media. The Feds didn’t want him for murder, he said. They wanted to put him away because of what he knew about 9/11.

After circulating Lolita in secret amongst a small circle of New Yorker editors and publishers, Vladamir Nabokov finally placed it at Olympia Press. Three weeks before publication, a slumping and broke Dorothy Parker appeared in The New Yorker with a story entitled “Lolita” about a teenage bride, her jealous mother, and a much older man.

A profile of Moktar Belmoktar, Al-Qaida’s “most difficult employee,” who was responsible for a major attack on an Algerian BP plant and, according to U.S. and Libyan forces, was killed in an air strike on Sunday.

How living off food stamps is making South Texans obese but leaving them hungry.