The diary of a Scranton, PA National Guardsmen tasked with guarding the highest profile prisoner in U.S history: a surprisingly amiable Saddam Hussein.

The story of Nate Fleming—walk-on point guard at Oklahoma State, fan favorite, golden child—and the 2001 plane crash that took his life.

From the Greeks to George Lucas, 2,200 years of failure.

Emmanuel “Toto” Constant, the founder of a barbaric Haitian paramilitary group, vanished from Port-au-Prince and resurfaced as a real estate agent in Queens.

On the man who has turned the grunt work of packing into a social media phenomenon.

The story of Jejoen Bontinck, a Belgian teen-ager who travelled to Syria to fight with radical Islamists.

How Irv Teibel pioneered the capturing and repackaging of nature’s acoustics.

More and more Americans are trying to survive on less than $2 a day.

Three days, 64 people shot, six of them dead: Memorial Day weekend in Chicago.

At 33, Wendy Brown stole her daughter’s name, grabbed a pair of pom-poms, and went back to high school. Then she went to jail.

How two high school wrestling teammates ended up on opposites side of the law during Miami’s cocaine wars.

A Marxist archaeologist uncovers traces of fugitive slave settlements deep in the Great Dismal Swamp.

Inside the final weeks of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

The story of a newscaster’s suicide.

The story of Jennifer Frey, a sportswriting prodigy who drank herself to death.

For three days, thousands of uninsured Americans converge on the Wise County Fairgrounds for the largest pop-up clinic in the country.

On a mysterious migrant in a San Diego hospital bed, and the thousands of families who hope that he’s theirs.

A Washington tribe expelled 306 of its members. They’re not going quietly.

On the outsized pleasures of the very small.

Mapping the global spread of antigay ideology.

“These, I now know, are the details of how my mother died..:”

A tour of a nonprofit that collects, warehouses, and donates perfectly good stuff hospitals throw away, from anesthesia machines to unopened surgical tools.

“The true impact of activism may not be felt for a generation. That alone is reason to fight.”

Disillusioned with fine dining, one of the world’s great chefs took on fast food. It has been harder than he ever imagined.

The rise and fall of a violent underground anti-racist group.