A study of resilience in does and other female creatures.

“Those who were born in the U.S.S.R. and those born after its collapse do not share a common experience,” wrote Svetlana Alexievich, who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 2015. “It’s like they’re from different planets.”

One frosty October morning in 1991, a newborn baby boy is found inside a plastic bag in an Oslo graveyard. This is his story, in nine parts.

In just the past few years, one union has organized close to 10,000 Florida adjuncts, in what is one of the most remarkable and little-noticed large scale labor campaigns in the country.

The whole thing began over a puddle in the driveway. Eight years later, Peter Nygard and his neighbor Louis Bacon, who own houses next to each other in paradise, have spent tens of millions in a constantly escalating legal war. Neither man spends much time on the island anymore.

The Tiwonge Chimbalanga, a transgender woman who was imprisoned four years ago in Malawi for getting engaged to a man. Pardoned and freed, she now scrapes by living in exile in South Africa.

In February 2010, a killer whale named Tilikum dragged his SeaWorld trainer into the pool and drowned her. It was the third time the orca had been involved in a death during his 27 years in captivity. This is his story.

On labels.

Unraveling the case of a Canadian man suffering from schizophrenia, put on trial for murder in New York, but found not criminally responsible in Nova Scotia.

On the rapid disintegration of the ecosystem in Las Vegas.

Women’s recruitment into elite commandos, formed in response to post-9/11 terrorism, was not driven by a desire for diversity in the workplace, but by the need to conduct raids and arrest militants without alienating local communities.

When an 11-year-old Black girl in Jim Crow America discovers a seemingly worthless plot of land she has inherited is worth millions, everything in her life changes—and the walls begin to close in.

In 2001, a young Japanese woman walked into the North Dakota woods and froze to death. Had she come in search of the $1 million dollars buried nearby in the film Fargo?

The fight over an alleged Israeli war crime.

A week in the life of Naomi and Spencer Haskell.

Newton Murray got his first job in 1926. He’s seldom missed a day of work since.

How a sexual assault case in Idaho involving refugee children morphed into an anti-refugee frenzy.

With prices spiralling, poachers are digging for ginseng in the North Carolina hills.

In 1902, a poet attempts to stage the world’s first “perfume concert.”

“And yet we live still in Cheney’s world. All around us are the consequences of those decisions.”

The story of a young man on the run in the slum he dreams of escaping.

On the difficult challenges faced by an auteur in Nigeria’s burgeoning Nollywood film economy.

The country’s elites are desperate to figure out what they got wrong in 2016. But can they handle the truth?

On the frontlines of extinction in the Gulf of California, where the vaquita faces its final days.

Justin Alexander went searching for higher meaning. No one expected the quest to end in a search for his body.