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

While Covid-19 deaths in the United States skyrocket, Germans have managed to largely contain the damage. What do we need to learn?

As vaccines roll out, the U.S. will face a choice about what to learn and what to forget.

For some workers, the pandemic brought new meaning to a nationwide movement to raise the minimum wage.

A trip to Kingston, Jamaica to track down Bunny Wailer, a reggae legend now living “in his own private Zion.”

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

To deal with climate change and power the cars of tomorrow, we’ll have to solve the cobalt problem.

A family turns to murder to save one of their own.

The story of 1968’s Golden Globe, a race to see who could become the first sailor to circumnavigate the world solo without stopping.

A man had a gift for teaching people to beat the polygraph. Now he’s going to prison.

Dr. Joel Dreyer was a respected psychiatrist. Then he took a sudden turn to a life of drug dealing. Medicine might be able to explain why.

How John Snavely went from petty criminal to porn star to prison.

A Houston man allegedly tries to hire several hit men to kill his wife. Each fails miserably. It becomes the talk of the town.

Jimmy McNulty, Mike Daisey, and the problems with skirting the system to get to the greater truth.

The highest-ranking CIA officer to be convicted of spying passes the tricks of the trade along to his son.

Women who kill their newborns usually claim to have been in denial about their pregnancies. Can you carry a child to term without realizing it?

Cheryl Stearns wanted to become the first woman to skydive 20,000 times. She came up 14 jumps short.

A vegan sets out to see if there’s an ethical, sustainable way to eat fish in 2015.

On the golden anniversary of her first trip to study chimps, an ode to Jane Goodall.

A feat of elegant design wowed elite architects and promised to bring education to poor children in Nigeria. Then it collapsed.

Jered Threatin tried to fake his way to fame and got caught red-handed. Or did he?

A visit to a colonial debutante ball in Texas, where girls wear hundred-pound dresses and pretend to be Martha Washington.

“Yesterday I was just googling, I was going on YouTube to see how to microwave pasta.”

Tatiana Angulo came to the U.S. legally and was trying to do everything right. Then came the coronavirus.

She wanted to ride with men in one of the world’s most dangerous sports. She had a lot more than her competition to be worried about.