As the wilderness gets overrun, the most hated man in the Rockies finds an audience of emulators and antagonists.

At least 44 Fort Bragg soldiers died stateside in 2020—several of them were homicides. Families want answers. But the Army isn’t giving any.

On vandwelling in the wake of the Great Recession.

Gary Haase has amassed the world’s most expensive Pokémon card collection, valued at over $10 million. So why isn’t he cashing in?

He covered car accidents for a years as a journalist. Then he was in two himself.

In 1976, a school bus carrying 26 children and their driver disappeared from a small California town, capturing the world’s attention.

Fifty years ago, a police shooting set in motion a decades-long chase across the American West.

Fighting the romanticism of owning a home in one of the nation’s most competitive housing markets.

For the past two decades, the micronation of Westarctica has grown in prominence—and is now using its power for something other than Antarctic domination.

Mardi Fuller grew up in a world of swimming lessons and swim teams because of a mysterious death that haunted her family’s past.

Did Thomas Pynchon write a series of letters to Northern California newspapers under the pseudonym “Wanda Tinasky”?

Cory Booker, Chris Christie, and Mark Zuckerberg had a plan to reform Newark’s schools. They got an education.

The dispute over what may be the biggest sunken treasure ever found – and who gets to keep it.

A father who brought his daughter to a ballgame and the fallout from a foul ball.

Y.A. Tittle, an 87-year-old Hall of Fame quarterback with dementia, travels to his hometown for the last time.

Kim Goodsell had a pair of rare diseases. Doctors didn’t have the time to look for a link. So she taught herself genetics and found it herself.

A small New Jersey town is world-famous among Orthodox Jews as a place to come ask for handouts.

Why parties, love, kids, conversation and more are so miserable (at least to Phillip Lopate).

Investigating a former NFL star’s new business: renting professional athletes to their biggest fans.

Bob Voulgaris and his math prodigy sidekick attempt to create the perfect betting algorithm.

A cultural history of Bitcoin and what happened when the nascent virtual currency began to be covered by the mainstream media.

A trip to an uncompromising cattle ranch.

When it comes to sweatshops and child labor, your $7 H&M gym shorts aren’t really the problem (or the solution).

Kathy Phipps was “rescued” by FEMA. Ten years later, she is so anxious she’s confined to her house.

Activist investor Bill Ackman set out to destroy the multilevel marketing company. But did he wind up helping it succeed instead?