The post–civil war boom in shark fishing that saved Congolese fishermen and their families is now drying up.

For the past 70 years, the Circle L 5 Riding Club in Fort Worth has been honoring the legacy of its forefathers.

How much can athletes really make in niche sports? A whole lot more than you might think.

After he killed two people in Kenosha, opportunists turned his case into a polarizing spectacle.

Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was once a regular Miami kid. Now he’s in a DC jail.

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

For many, the answer from the state is “yes.” An investigation into what legally determines a person’s ability to parent.

The creator of Scandal and Grey’s Anatomy offers advice to the Dartmouth class of 2014.

Courtland Kelley knew there was a problem more than a decade ago. He tried to speak up. He sued. He lost.

How the Pentagon makes “Koch Industries look like an organic farm” when it comes to toxic water contamination.

How to understand the real-world value of things that are worth nothing and everything at once.

Arlena Lindley’s boyfriend Alonzo Turner beat her for months and murdered her child. So why was she sent to prison for 45 years?

An inside look at the Democratic infighting and Republican gameplan (“Obama, Obama, Obama”) that led to the midterm landslide.

How the self-proclaimed “inventor of all things streaming” went from dot-com millionaire to crime ring accomplice.

On the 1,600-year-old text that suggests that Jesus, long believed to be celibate, was a married man.

What it’s like to be Enzyte’s “Smiling Bob,” and other tales of acting as a product’s public face.

How a Tulsa preacher used direct mail to create the American religious right.

A nationally respected neurologist feeds secrets to Wall Street.

The author visits Franklin County, Mississippi, where, according to census data, there are zero same-sex couples.

On “Operation Bambi,” the secret plan to oust “Today” show co-host Ann Curry.

Inside the N.S.A.’s mission to spy on just about everyone.

The journey from a Sudanese refugee camp to an Atlanta police academy.

How the ski town of the super-rich is responding to global warming.

The Giants' miraculous 1951 comeback wasn't all that it seemed.

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Stuck between the Taliban and the U.S. Military, Afghanistan’s farmers risk their lives both when they grow, and when they refuse to grow, fields of poppies.