More than 50 foreclosure stories have one word in common: Nightmare.

The haunting of 657 Boulevard in Westfield, New Jersey.

Johnson & Johnson knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder.

Unregulated dams across Texas are increasingly failing—putting people and property in jeopardy.

The long fight against racism in romance novels.

In Kansas, girls didn’t have a wrestling championship. Mya Kretzer changed that.

Can his cerebral politics still galvanize voters in an age of extremes?

How acute childhood trauma infects and compromises relationships later in life.

What happens when humans, not algorithms, are in charge.

A hundred and fifty years ago, slightly more, a strange notion: the dead could be counted. In the Civil War, in the lush fields of the South, Americans first, as a culture, began to imagine death in numbers. Rosters of soldiers, as well as lists of war casualties, were not common practice in the mid-nineteenth century. Many officials feared responsibility for the dead by numbering or naming them, and military leaders felt an accurate count might embolden their enemies.

In 1992, thousands of furious, drunken cops descended on City Hall—and changed New York history.

In a sea of skeptics, this physician was one of fibromyalgia patients’ few true allies. Or was he?

In Oakland, California, when it comes to Black homelessness and dispossession, dystopia is already here.

In the wake of revolution, Libyans envision their future.

A profile of the “smart person’s” astrologer, and the people who believe in horopscopes.

The author on his 25 years in solitary confinement.

A participant in a deadly shooting spree decides to snitch on his friends.

A profile of Russell Baze, the winningest jockey in American history.

Investigating the burning of ancient books by rebels in Timbuktu.

Tourism at the site of the worst nuclear disaster in history.

On police brutality in New York and the race riots of 1964.

Why six people admitted roles in two murders they most likely didn’t commit.

They lose millions in a Florida real estate scam.

A couple’s only son is killed in Iraq.

On the rise in gay teens who are cast out by their families.