Inmates work for hours each day and yet have no labor rights.

More than 100 years after they were discovered, we’re still looking for an answer as to why blood types exist.

On PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, and the experience of covering AIDS in Africa.

Meeting Christopher Thomas Knight, a.k.a. the North Pond Hermit, who lived alone in the Maine woods for nearly 30 years.

The on and offline search for the prime suspect in last month’s celebrity nude photo hacking scandal.

The “insane playfulness, deliberate infantilism, nutty haikus, naked stripteases, free-form chants and literary war dances of the beats” and their leader.

If jobs as we’ve known them for a century are going away, what will replace them?

For a time, NGOs thought they’d eradicated the disease. But now it’s back.

The search for an Iraq veteran on the brink of suicide.

How an entire industry built itself convincing lead-paint poisoning victims to sign over settlement payments for a fraction of what they’re worth.

Who was Ashraf Marwan working for when he fell to his death from the balcony of a London flat?

A sociologist’s controversial first book and the debate over who gets to speak for whom.

Government agencies have been trying to protect children for nearly 200 years. They are still failing.

The search for the missing Holocaust hero began in 1945. The unending quest tore his family apart.

Reconstructing the investigation into Rafik Hariri’s assassination, for which five men stand trial in absentia.

The man behind the craze for fermented alcoholic tea likes to tell the story of his own conception.

For decades a group of radical Catholics, many of them nuns, have been keeping up the good fight against nuclear weapons.

The multimillionaire David Gundlach had trouble, all his life, reading social cues. For reasons no one quite understands, he left most of his fortune to Elkhart, Indiana.

A support group for trans veterans meets in New Orleans, linked to the only VA that is known to treat them with respect.

On having sex with your high school girlfriend – and paying the price for years to come.

The search for a missing ultramarathoner in New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness, and the life that lead him there.

A profile of fashion designer Nudie Cohn, who made clothing for Elvis, Glen Campbell, Johnny Cash, and others.

In 2003, Gary Coleman ran for governor of California. But what he really wanted was to have never come to Hollywood in the first place.

Searching for (and easily finding) Mark Augustus Landis, the man behind the “longest, strangest forgery spree the American art world has known.”