Park ranger Paul Fugate vanished on an Arizona trail more than forty years ago. Investigators are still looking for him.

Documents from Edward Snowden show that the intelligence agency is arming America for future digital wars—a struggle for control of the Internet that is already well underway.

The grocer started communicating with Chinese counterparts in January and was running tabletop simulations a few weeks later. (But nothing prepared it for the rush on toilet paper.)

The behind-the-scenes publishing saga of Joseph Heller’s 1961 novel.

For years, Joshua Milton Blahyi, better known as General Butt Naked, was one of Liberia’s most feared warlords. Then he became a pastor. Today he visits the families of his victims to seek forgiveness for his sins.

The answer to the disparity in death rates has everything to do with the lived experience of being a black woman in America.

Unpacking the empty promises of the minimalism craze.

How toxic fumes seep into the air you breathe on planes.

How India disenfranchises Muslims.

A story from the end of the earth.

A year after the tragedy of Hurricane Maria, the 51st state has become the favorite playground for extremely wealthy Americans looking to keep their money from the taxman. The only catch? They have to cut all ties to the mainland (wink, wink).

How Juarez became the murder capital of the world.

For a century, the humble paper towel has dominated public toilets. But a new generation of hand dryers has sparked a war for loo supremacy.

The Nxivm initiation was supposed to open up a secret sisterhood. After giving up compromising photographs to the recruiter “master,” each woman was expecting a tattoo. Instead they received 2-inch brands that seemed to suggest the initials of the cults founder, Keith Raniere.

A single pill could take the sting out of our memories of trauma.

A history of the gravestone laser-etching industry.

An investigation into “Little Albert,” the famous test subject.

Inside the economics of scientific publishing, an industry that’s somehow nearly as profitable as film and has changed the course of science in the process.

A dispatch from the campaign trail and a new understanding of America.

The retired senator Mike Gravel gave two young fans his Twitter password and permission to campaign in his name. It might be a stunt—or the future of politics.

A study in building spaceships.

What science can tell us about how other creatures experience the world.

A look inside Google’s Ground Truth.

Drought, dread, and family in the American Southwest.

Could a global icon of extinction still be alive?