For half a century, she has taken the things we know best— our bodies, our rituals, our nation — and shown us how strange they really are.

“How do you catch someone up on your entire life?”

While serving in WWII, Jerome Motto received regular correspondence from a woman he barely knew. These letters led to groundbreaking research on how to reach people at risk.

Joe Ford, car detective, searches the world for stolen rare automobiles on the black market.

She turned to Google for help getting sober. Then she had to escape a nightmare.

Madrid, 1937:

Then for a moment it stops. An old woman, with a shawl over her shoulders, holding a terrified thin little boy by the hand, runs out into the square. You know what she is thinking: she is thinking she must get the child home, you are always safer in your own place, with the things you know. Somehow you do not believe you can get killed when you are sitting in your own parlor, you never think that. She is in the middle of the square when the next one comes.

In an excerpt from her book, the late Northern Irish journalist joined a search for a missing youth.

An obituary.

For 10 years, Libre—an arm of the Koch family’s Americans for Prosperity—has been working to foster conservatism in Hispanic communities. Now, the group is going all-in on Georgia’s Senate runoffs.

The search for a disgraced ex-LAPD officer bent on killing his former colleagues and their families.

A look at the artists and writers who drive for a New York cab company. The story that inspired Taxi.

Some of the wealthiest people in America are getting ready for the crackup of civilization.

A profile of former club kid Michael Alig, who is approaching release after serving 17 years in jail for murder.

Paul Newman’s will held some unpleasant surprises for his daughters.

Seven years ago, a young Indigenous woman from Tache, BC, went to a party and never came back. Her family won’t stop looking for her.

After being extinct for 70 million years, the coelacanth came back to life.

A profile of a 51-year-old preparing himself for the inevitable.

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

In 2006, seven men stole £53m. Six were caught, but more than half the money remains at large. On modern money laundering best practices.

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

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.

Apocalypse camp at the dawn of the Great Extinction.

The stubborn Senator from Vermont considers a run for the White House.

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.