Americans learn to love themselves.

What became of Annie Moore, the first person to arrive on Ellis Island?

A weekend at a Christian gay-to-straight sexual reorientation retreat.

What does it take to win the World Taxidermy Championships?

How smallpox went from eradicated disease to the ideal weapon of bioterrorists.

Anesthesiologists, in hugely disproportionate numbers compared to other doctors, are getting high.

What happens to a subway operator after someone commits suicide by jumping in front of his train?

Returning to the scenes of three famous deaths in Seattle.

On the psychology of a rescue worker after years of responding to disaster.

Did Michell Carter’s texts cause Conrad Roy to kill himself?

What happens to American children when their parents are deported?

The billionaire founder of Renaissance Technologies turns to science.

To the KGB and back.

How contemporary medicine is testing us to death.

“By asking very simple questions, people have said the most astonishing things to me.”

An electrician’s odd plot to make $607,933.50.

How Black America talks to the White House.

Tracking stolen firearms through the black market, from gun store thefts to crime scenes.

Life in Mexico immediately after being forced to leave the U.S.

One man’s quest to stop horse racing deaths.

There has never been a better time to commit financial crimes.

A singer keeps getting close to stardom. And then something falls apart.

Trying to parent my Black teenagers through protest and pandemic.

In Minneapolis, a group of activists take over a Sheraton and open it to the homeless, banning police.

You’re 19 years old. You get famous overnight. You move to LA. Now what?