Home-funeral guides believe that families can benefit from tending to—and spending time with—the bodies of their deceased.

Orthopedic surgery would have bankrupted us in the United States. So we went to Mexico instead.

Inside a literary Ponzi scheme.

From Kenya to Amsterdam to New Jersey, an industry collapses in a matter of weeks.

A young dealer goes on the lam after selling multiple masterpieces to several buyers simultaneously.

But for heaven’s sake, the best-selling author, unapologetic cusser, and fifth-generation Texan would rather not be called that.

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

In a Los Angeles suburb where schools and parents faltered, the American Dream was replaced by drugs, neo-Nazism, and despair.

A trans activist from El Salvador who has helped countless trans migrant women fight for asylum in the U.S. finds asylum for herself.

There are myriad arguments for and against eating roadkill. Can they all be true at the same time?

“His life with the virus would be his witness, his public testimony. Performance as life, and life as performance.”

Millions of human artifacts circle the Earth. Can we clean them up before they cause a disaster?

Observers have long warned of rising forced labor in Xinjiang. Satellite images show factories built just steps away from cell blocks.

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

How did a lorry carrying 273 dead bodies end up stranded on the outskirts of Guadalajara?

Sarah Green escaped her mother’s cult 22 years ago. She still thinks about those she left behind.

In 2015, Tom Turcich set out to circumnavigate the globe by foot. He has been walking ever since.

An ocean race from the Olympic Peninsula to Alaska, with no motors allowed.

The singer-songwriter tries to hold down an uncertain moment.

In the West, organized extremists are driving community health officials out of their jobs.

Troughout his life, Hernández has been known as one thing: a soccer player. But last year, that identifier stopped being enough.

Biologists are rescuing baby sharks and skates from recently caught females, giving the unborn a chance at survival.

Biden has a plan to make day care more affordable for parents—if the providers don’t go out of business first.

“Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.”

Another look at a popular myth.

For the longest time blues fans didn’t even know what their hero looked like—in 1971, a music magazine even hired a forensic artist to make a composite sketch based on various first-hand accounts—until two photos of Robert Johnson finally came to light.  The dapper young man pictured in the most famous photo, dressed in a stylish suit and smiling affably at the camera, hardly looks like a man who has sold his soul to Lucifer.