On touring America and the culture of trailer parks in the early 1950s.

Making ends meet in Iowa City.

A journalist goes undercover in Blackwell’s Island Insane Asylum.

Life in America without dental care.

Life in Silicon Valley during the dawn of the unicorns.

Machine guns, cannons and drones in the Arizona desert.

“You have to ask for food. You have to ask to go use the bathroom. … [Kelly] is a master at mind control. … He is a puppet master.”

An ode to the Bee Gees' strange, successful career.

Kelli Stapleton, whose teenage daughter was autistic and prone to violent rages, had come to fear for her life. So she made a decision that perhaps only she could justify.

“Easy care” sheep, crushed piglets, and starving calves. These are the products of a remote research center where scientists are trying to re-engineer the farm animal to fit the needs of the 21st-century meat industry.

A young reporter heads to Colombia to report on the conflict between FARC and the paramilitaries. He meets a girl on the bus. After they begin a relationship, she reveals that that she is part of a death squad.

“The entire system set up to monitor and regulate Wall Street is fucked up. Just ask the people who tried to do the right thing.”

Jane de Oliveira set out to protect the world’s largest rain forest from the corporate interests that are burning it to the ground. Then the armed men showed up.

It’s tempting to think Marco McMillian was killed because of his race, his sexuality, or because he was running for mayor. The truth is more elusive.

Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling needed funding for his ambitious video-game startup. Rhode Island politicians needed jobs and a vision for how to transform the state’s beleaguered economy. The story of a $75 million bet gone bust.

“The concussion that led Borland to retire came on a routine play, and that’s precisely his point.”

Traveling with a sex tourist to the Uzbek city of Tashkent. Excerpted from the forthcoming book If It’s Monday It Must Be Madurai.

Detroit is trying to end the longstanding practice of “scrapping,” which is the only way some of its residents can earn a living.

A woman thought a Coen brothers movie was a “true story” and tracked it to her death. Now someone’s made a fictional film about her, further blurring the lines between reality and artifice.

A group of Gambian exiles scattered around America plotted to storm the Presidential palace and overthrow a brutal dictator. Their budget? $221,000.

When IP mapping goes awry dozens of strangers show up to the same home again and again looking for their stolen gear.

The venture capitalist and Facebook board member staked his reputation on a Trump presidency. Now what does he have to show for it?

Michael Savage used his position at San Francisco’s Presidio to stir up a controversy over Japanese American internment.

An unlikely duo from Boston treks to Bolivia, hoping to solve a 30-year-old aviation mystery.