Millions of American workers sign away legal rights without knowing what they’re in for: Arbitration Hell.

Inside the compulsive world of airline rewards hobbyists, who spend the bulk of their lives flying around the world for free.

How the former Fear Factor host’s podcast became an essential platform for “freethinkers” who hate the left.

In 2005, the painting sold at auction for $1,000. Its most recent price? $450 million.

The need for a new letter on an old manual machine leads the author to the shop of Martin Tytell — repairman, historian, and high priest of typewriters.

The Aziz Ansari controversy was just the beginning of the trouble for the website.

When patients turn to crowdfunding for medical costs, whoever has the most heartrending story wins.

Haley downloaded the app for fun. Now millions of people watch her videos.

For eight hours last fall, Paradise, Calif., became a zone at the limits of the American imagination — and a preview of the American future.

What happened to the National Enquirer after it went all in for Trump.

For hundreds of years, there were rumors of a shipwrecked treasure on the Oregon coast. But no one found anything, until Cameron La Follette began digging.

National economies collapse; species go extinct; political movements rise and fizzle. But—somehow, for some reason—Weird Al keeps rocking.

The Asian-American literary pioneer, whose writing has paved the way for many immigrants’ stories, has one last big idea.

For the first time, data scientists have modeled how climate refugees might move across international borders. This is what they found.

In the pandemic, “caremongering” has become a new term for an old—and joyous—practice

A teenage clerk dialed 911. How should the brothers who own CUP Foods pay for what happened next?

The boutique fitness phenomenon sold exclusivity with a smile, until a toxic atmosphere and a push for growth brought the whole thing down.

On Bill May, considered to be the greatest male synchronized swimmer who ever lived, and his long quest for Olympic gold.

Deep in southwest Arkansas is a state park that charges visitors $10 to search for gems that can be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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

Korean adoptees felt isolated and alone for decades. Then Facebook brought them together.

For some Americans, history isn’t the story of what actually happened; it’s the story they want to believe.

For 50 years, Enthusiastic Sobriety programs have promised to help teenagers kick drug and alcohol addiction. But former followers say ES doesn’t save lives—it destroys them.

The pandemic offered an unprecedented opportunity for the researchers who study why and how we dream.

“I never thought about ending my pregnancy. Instead, at 19, I erased the future I had imagined for myself.”