The theme-park chain where kids learn to pilot a plane, pay taxes, and pretend to be adults.

Ending homelessness is really quite simple: give people somewhere to live. Why’s Utah the only place willing to try it?

A voyage to North Sentinel island, home to one of the last entirely isolated populations on Earth.

For mountaineers, it’s not enough just to get to the top—it’s how you get there that matters.

Ray Spencer went to jail for 20 years for molesting his kids. Then they started to question their memories.

The dark, tangled truths coming to light thanks to subterranean cartography.

“Watching the cells populate, it rapidly became clear that many of us had weathered more than we had been willing to admit to one another.”

How the way we’re taught to look at female-centric TV, books and movies is ruining our ability to see good art.

How the ex-spy tried to warn the world about Trump’s ties to Russia.

An obsessive marine biologist gambles his savings, family, and sanity on a quest to be the first to capture a live giant squid.

A guide to making sense of a problem that is now too big for any one person to fully comprehend.

When the FDA approves lab-grown human organs for patients, Dean Kamen wants to be ready to mass-produce them.

A trip to one of America’s quietest places and the guy who has dedicated his life to keeping it that way.

Confined mostly to tiny cabins as the pandemic unfolded, crew members struggle to cope.

He arrived in Bolivia in November 1966, disguised as a Uruguayan businessman. After desertions, drownings, and difficulty contacting their support group in La Paz, his small troop was surrounded the following October. The inside story of how they were found and destroyed.

In “Operation Mincemeat” a vagrant’s corpse, raided from a London morgue, washed up on a beach in Spain, setting in motion an elaborate piece of espionage that fooled Nazi intelligence. Or did it?

In April 2016, eight family members were slain in their homes in Ohio. Nine months later, the killer or killers are still on the loose, and the town has all but forgotten the crimes.

In Aug. 2008, the U.S. military called in an airstrike on its own security guards in Afghanistan. Dozens of children were killed.

How the modern pig farm came to be.

A Texas border town fails to keep up.

‘‘That’s something I don’t think I could ever do,’’ she said. ‘‘Send my only girl to another random country to live with people she’d just met. It had to be God that paralyzed Monica Fenty’s emotions so that she’d say, ‘Yes, go.’ To this day, I don’t know how that happened. But thank God it did.’’

“I faced death and all that shit. It’s my responsibility to come back and come back strong. It’s going to take more than a Walmart truck to take that gift away. I can’t wait to make you all laugh. Especially you, Mike. And I already did that today. So all is good.”

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.

Whoever wants to enchant America’s conservative base as well as independents looking for a steady hand amid economic upheaval must try to grasp what has carried Cain this far — what not only shields him from spectacular attempts at self-immolation but also, with each incident, seems to make him stronger. Why, with this candidate, do the laws of physics seem not to apply?