An investigation into how a 19-year-old college freshman ended up buried in a landfill.

A clandestine meeting between Western journalists and Hezbollah fighters in a Beirut strip mall.

A man tries to rebuild his life after killing four people in a car crash.

Searching for Jimmy Robinson, a boxer who fought Muhammad Ali in 1961, then disappeared.

How 2-minute noodles became a half-billion dollar debacle for Nestlé in India.

Visiting a gargantuan shrine to democracy in 2017.

On race and risk in American culture.

On Jonathan Richman and his roots in small-town Maine.

Looking for answers after an ayahuasca murder in Peru.

Giving birth as a black woman in America.

Exploring the relationship between authors and their parents.

It mattered to her that she could have, or might have, been a writer, and perhaps it mattered to me more than I fully understood. She watched my books appear with considerable interest, and wrote me an oddly formal letter about the style of each one, but she was, I knew, also uneasy about my novels. She found them too slow and sad and oddly personal. She was careful not to say too much about this, except once when she felt that I had described her and things which had happened to her too obviously and too openly. That time she said that she might indeed soon write her own book. She made a book sound like a weapon.

How Craigslist dealers do business in New York City.

How police brought down a tech-savvy prostitution network in Seattle.

A report from Sprague’s Sports, a firearms emporium in Yuma, Arizona.

Due to global warming, this island nation may cease to exist in 20 years.

An illustrated codex, hand-composed in an unknown writing system.

In order to keep running, Tom White cut off his own leg.

How to get high in America – legally.

An endangered-species murder mystery in Hawaii.

“I have a big cock in my living room.”

Tourism in Burma? A journey through Asia’s most anesthetized state.

An investigation into sexual abuse in youth sports, with a focus on USA Swimming.

A husband puts himself in his wife’s shoes—with help from a Japanese scientist.

Investigating a brutal double murder in a Kentucky military town.

Johnson & Johnson knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder.