The story of a school shooting in Townville, S.C. and what happened to the first-graders who saw it all happen.

A local environmental activist fights to prepare her community for life beyond mining.

What should be done with the bodies of ISIS fighters? While investigating in Mosul, the author uncovers a terrible crime.

Taking a stand for public land turns out to be very good for sales.

A year in the life of Gwen Woods, after her son was killed by police.

Going on a fishing trip with the secretary of the interior.

How the federal government abused its power to seize property for a border fence.

At 15, Ruben Urbina couldn’t bear his depression and anxiety anymore. So he called police with a chilling threat.

The story of a Puerto Rican family trying to get settled in Chicago after Hurricane Maria.

A widow and her stepchildren battle Chase and each other.

More than a year ago, Nevada death row prisoner Scott Dozier gave up his legal appeals and asked to be executed. He’s still waiting.

An indecent proposal, a crime of passion, and legends of murder in an enclave of bohemian retirees.

What we know (and don’t), more than a year after American diplomats began to suffer strange, concussion-like symptoms in Cuba.

Learning to live in Earth’s coldest conditions.

As a nation unwinds, Leopoldo López, the opposition’s most prominent leader, sits under house arrest and contemplates what might still be possible.

On photographer Garry Winogrand and the unedited archive of more than half a million exposures he left behind.

How Jerry Falwell Jr. transformed Liberty University, one of the religious right’s most powerful institutions, into a wildly lucrative online empire.

A dispatch from Cape Town, where surprising things can happen when it feels like the world is about to end.

Even soldiers who fight wars from a safe distance have found themselves traumatized.

A secret network of women is working outside the law and the medical establishment to provide safe, cheap home abortions.

How a meteorite hunter’s obsession took him from the mountains of Colorado, to the Bundy Ranch, and eventually landed him in jail.

Rojava becomes the Spanish Civil War of modern times for a ragtag group of leftists revolutionaries.

A comprehensive history of the case against the Menendez brothers, built primarily on secret audio recording made by their self-promoting therapist.

World-famous Houston surgeon Bud Frazier spent decades developing a revolutionary device that could save millions of lives.

A leftist journalist’s bruising crusade against establishment Democrats—and their Russia obsession.