When colleges shut down, people get hurt.

Thea Hunter was a promising, brilliant scholar. And then she got trapped in academia’s permanent underclass.

Despite what dementia has stolen from the cerebral creator of Deadwood, it has given his work a new sense of urgency.

In a supermax facility on US soil, inmates are force fed—and barred from sharing their stories.

Greed, drugs, dirty cops, and the bitter sibling rivalry burning up an $800 million Louisiana family dynasty.

Independent “researchers” are sharing unfounded theories across social media, which have the potential to spread panic and confusion—and have even fooled legitimate government agencies.

An investigation into how the Church moves its money.

The discovery of a legendary, lost shipwreck in North America has pitted treasure hunters and archaeologists against each other, raising questions about who should control sunken riches.

“What I learned about masculinity from my father, my father-in-law and my own transition.”

A telekinetic teenager became a convicted killer. Can a group of strangers prove that Christina Boyer is really a victim of injustice?

It wasn’t until death rates began to soar that society began to take the outbreak seriously enough.

A portrait of a modern family undone by the political zeitgeist.

The rise and fall of Quayside, a futuristic city concept that Google’s Sidewalk Labs planned to build in neglected part of Toronto.

The story of an aviator-adventurer draws a journalist into a reflection on his own family’s history of flight.

A legendary chef and the wheels he left behind.

Two metal-detector enthusiasts discovered a Viking hoard. It was worth a fortune—but it became a nightmare.

How could the coronavirus overwhelm a Florida nursing home so quickly?

The author’s chance encounter with Tom Hanks leads to a dear and lasting friendship with his assistant.

It’s a multilevel marketing company called AdvoCare. Or maybe it’s a pyramid scheme.

How Abraham Lincoln’s lifelong struggle with clinical depression was a key to his presidency.

How homelessness is criminalized in small cities and towns across the West.

Big-riggers who make sometimes less than minimum wage are locked legal fights with the unregulated leasing industry.

I thought I could change The Bachelor franchise from within. Until I realized I was their token.

The traditional home is under renovation. Can people find meaning in groups?

To understand the state’s urban-rural divide, start by looking at Yamhill County’s proposed walking trail.