In Guyana after the Jonestown massacre, with the survivors and the dead.

Uncovered letters reveal ties between the literary magazine and the CIA’s Congress for Cultural Freedom.

After a racial hazing incident, the first black head of South Africa’s University of Free State confronts the myths of the reconciliation era.

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

After a murder in the California wilderness, the search for the killer raises complicated questions about mental illness.

The story of the meeting that led to the creation of ISIS, as explained by someone still on the inside.

A profile of the “Oldboy” and “The Handmaiden” director.

The history of the City of London Corporation, a “prehistoric monster which had mysteriously survived into the modern world.”

The inside story of the first homicide in America’s most secure prison.

A young paleontologist may have discovered a record of the most significant event in the history of life on Earth.

The U.S. buried nuclear waste in the Pacific after WWII. It’s close to resurfacing.

A small New Jersey town is world-famous among Orthodox Jews as a place to come ask for handouts.

Nearly every American soldier injured in Iraq or Afghanistan is treated—for a few days at least—at a single hospital in Landstuhl, Germany.

Culture profoundly shapes our ideas about mental illness, which is something psychologist Nev Jones knows all too well.

They’re supposed to safeguard pretrial detainees. But America’s oldest law enforcement agency is suffering from a massive dereliction of duty.

Makeda Davis emerged from more than seven years in prison to a life that is complicated, unfamiliar, and, sometimes, soul crushing.

How an HIV specialist in Germany is using media law to erase reporting of sexual abuse allegations against him.

Over the course of 25 years, he’s repeatedly toyed with the idea of running for president and now, maybe, governor of New York. With all but his closest apostles finally tired of the charade, even the Donald himself has to ask, what’s the point? On the plane and by the pool with the man who will not be king.

Forty-five years ago, Buzz Aldrin became the second man to walk on the moon. It made him one of the most famous people in the world. And it has haunted the rest of his life.

The author tracked down “the other” Alan – Alan Z. Feuer – for a story last year. After the other Alan’s death, however, the author learns the truth about the society man’s humble past.

Last August, contaminated water escaped from an abandoned mine in Colorado and traveled down the Animas River to Shiprock, the second-largest city in the Navajo Nation. Two weeks later, the EPA declared the sludge-filled river safe.

To be a foreigner is to be perpetually detached, but it is also to be continually surprised.

A profile of former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford, who is running for office four years after his affair with an Argentine journalist became national news.

How life on four wheels became a brand.

Learning to live in Earth’s coldest conditions.