A profile of life in Owsley County, one of the poorest in the country.

Seized passports, debtor’s prison, and slave labor prop up a Disneyland in the desert now in decline.

The author investigates the massive wildlife die-off in the Salton Sea by rafting from its tributaries in Mexico.

With the 428th pick in the 1974 NFL draft, the Green Bay Packers selected…one of the most violent killers in U.S. history.

Two bodies wash up in Northern Europe, wearing identical wetsuits. The search for their identities leads authorities to a camp in Calais.

The broadcasting behemoth is up for a charter renewal in the United Kingdom, and it’s exposing every crack in the organization.

A day in the life of Mount Eerie’s Phil Elverum, in the wake of the sudden death of his wife when their daughter was four months old.

How a senseless double murder in Florida exposed the rise of an organized fascist youth movement in the United States.

Food. Phone calls. Medical care. Transport. Even in public prisons, “piecemeal privatization” is transforming incarceration in America.

The last living Shakers—just two by some counts—keep their centuries-old faith in a village in Maine.

Inside the Epoch Times: How an aspiring poet in Brooklyn became a tool in a right-wing propaganda blitz linked to Falun Gong.

In 1955, just past daybreak, a Chevrolet truck pulled up to an unmarked building. A 14-year-old child was in the back.

A small town in Upstate New York, and one family in particular, endures a five-year string of car accidents, suicides, and murders.

A man living in the Boston suburbs learns he could be one of the only survivors of a 1982 massacre in Guatemala.

How an apartheid-era psychiatrist went from torturing gay soldiers in South Africa to sexually abusing patients in Canada.

When 16 women live in a house, compete on a UFC reality show, and punch each other in the face.

Overcrowding in prisons leads to doubling up inmates in solitary confinement, regardless of their homicidal intentions or mental health.

Tracing the path of one of the world’s most in-demand minerals from deadly mines in Congo to your phone.

On the promise of 23-year-old Nicholas Cleves, who died in the bike path attack in New York.

In 1986, two lovebirds busted out of a coed prison in a hijacked helicopter. They’ve been trying to escape ever since.

Ray Bowman and Billy Kirkpatrick, who began boosting together as teenagers, were arrested only twice during their prolific partnership. The first time was for stealing 38 records from a K-Mart in 1974. The second arrest came in 1997. In between, Bowman and Kirkpatrick robbed 27 banks, including the single biggest haul in United States history: $4,461,681 from the Seafirst Bank in suburban Tacoma.

The plight of temporary workers in America.

Listening to music in prison.

Life in the French Foreign Legion.

On the increasingly dangerous situation for journalists in Syria.