“‘Make America Great Again’ means ‘Make America White Again.’ So now you have this other explosion of people who want to feel above something, better than something. And who is that? That’s me.”

“What can I say about Jaco? When I first met him he was extremely present tense and, I would have to say for lack of a better term, extremely sage.”

“It was a tiny incident in itself, but it gave me a better glimpse than I had had before of the real nature of imperialism–the real motives for which despotic governments act.” Memories of a British soldier in Burma.

Years from now, we will look back in horror at the counterproductive ways we addressed the obesity epidemic and the barbaric ways we treated fat people—long after we knew there was a better path.

Turns out animal intelligence is not so different from our own.

Twenty-five years later, the BBC investigates its own reporter.

Jung’s ‘Red Book’, a secret journal of dreams and drawings, has been in a Swiss vault for the better part of a century. The burden of its care has fallen on his descendants, who have reluctantly allowed it to be published.

"Opium does not deprive you of your senses. It does not make a madman of you. But drink does. See? Who ever heard of a man committing murder when full of hop. Get him full of whiskey and he might kill his father."

A journey into New York’s turn-of-the-century opium dens to find out who gets hooked and why.

A physician reports on his own catastrophic injury.

A veteran reporter investigates his own beating.

The Bandidos, Texas’s biggest motorcycle gang, say goodbye to one of their own.

How a self-taught linguist came to own an indigenous language.

For years, Joshua Milton Blahyi, better known as General Butt Naked, was one of Liberia’s most feared warlords. Then he became a pastor. Today he visits the families of his victims to seek forgiveness for his sins.

Each year, about 50,000 women are severely injured giving birth. Half of these injuries could be reduced or eliminated with better care.

For years, the candidate for Kansas governor has defended towns that passed anti-immigration ordinances. The towns have lost big — but Kobach has fared considerably better.

After years of outsourcing, many essential staff work for the NHS without receiving its benefits. In one London hospital, the fight is on for a better deal.

A pastor-turned-banker fakes his own death after allegedly embezzling millions and defrauding investors.

The author of I Know What You Did Last Summer investigates her own daughter’s unsolved murder.

In his own final days, a Right to Die activist tells the story of his secret, illegal assisted-suicide service.

The everyday violence of some urban neighburhoods in America takes its own emotional toll.

A teenager in a dreary suburb of Paris live-streams her own suicide—and acquires a morbid kind of digital celebrity.