Glory isn’t part of the deal when you go to work for the federal government.

Thomas Joshua Cooper risks his life to document the world’s remotest places.

Caveh Zahedi’s abject, self-defeating, ethically questionable, maddeningly original approach to documentary.

History’s largest mining operation is about to begin. It’s underwater—and the consequences are unimaginable.

A new genetic engineering technology could help eliminate malaria and stave off extinctions — if humanity decides to unleash it.

Inside the wildly ambitious effort to reimagine the classic musical for 2020.

Two well-liked Twitter employees accessed thousands of users’ private information and illegally passed it to the Saudi Royal Family, per the FBI.

A speech on the value of being alone with your thoughts, delivered to the plebe class at West Point.

How a group of 17 trans athletes came together last November to make history.

The first epicenter is coming back to life, but not as anyone knew it.

At 22, he single-handedly put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Then he was arrested by the FBI.

It was a fraught, utterly uncharted presidential transition—four years ago, from Obama to Trump. It was a prelude for so much that followed.

Sprawling ranches. Rare animals. Rich folks with guns. Welcome to the state’s booming business of stalking wildlife from around the globe.

With dozens of felines turning up dead around London, a pair of pet detectives set out to prove it was the work of a serial killer.

Elite schools breed entitlement, entrench inequality—and then pretend to be engines of social change.

How phone phreakers, many of them blind, opened up Ma Bell to unlimited free international calling using a technical manual and a toy organ.

On the brink of nuclear war, America’s bold response to the Soviet Union depended on an unknown spy agency operative.

More than a decade ago, a prominent academic was exposed for having faked her Cherokee ancestry. Why has her career continued to thrive?

As a diagnosis, it’s too vague to be helpful—but its rise tells us a lot about the way we work.

Climate change is bringing tourism and tension to Longyearbyen on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.

For decades, poppers have been the go-to sex drug for gay men. But where do they come from?

The ghosts of the uranium boom continue to haunt the land, water, and people.

How a landscape architect is enlisting nature to defend our coastal cities against climate change—and doing it on the cheap.

A last-gasp FEMA camp for wildfire survivors tests the government’s obligations to the displaced.

Hundreds of families have flocked to Colorado hoping medical marijuana will relieve their children’s epileptic seizures. This is the story of one family’s migration.