A reporter learns to slice lox—and digs into a Los Angeles landmark’s millions in debt.

How Warren Hinckle and Ramparts magazine helped revive muckraking journalism and launch the New Left.

When his father was murdered, Wasil Ahmad vowed revenge. He was 8 years old.

When a creature mysteriously turns up dead in Alaska, veterinary pathologist Kathy Burek gets the call.

How a brewery became more famous for what’s on its bottle than what’s in it.

Among other things, crows can recognize human faces—and train each other to avoid people they don’t like.

A local environmental activist fights to prepare her community for life beyond mining.

Taking a stand for public land turns out to be very good for sales.

During the 90s, David Bazan was Christian indie-rock’s first big crossover star. Then he stopped believing.

How Andrew Anglin went from being an antiracist vegan to the alt-right’s most vicious troll.

Kobe Bryant knows who he is, and he’s happy to tell you all about it.

Learning to live in Earth’s coldest conditions.

Did the NBA executive use social media to secretly disparage his players and defend his decisions?

Even soldiers who fight wars from a safe distance have found themselves traumatized.

A leftist journalist’s bruising crusade against establishment Democrats—and their Russia obsession.

Charlie Santore sees Los Angeles from the inside, by breaking into safes whose owners can no longer unlock them.

Inside Iraq’s most notorious prison, an Army interrogator named Joshua Casteel came fact to face with a truth about the war—and himself.

Children film themselves chewing, whispering and tapping to give their adult audience an ASMR buzz. But at what cost?

After Julie “Mama Julz” Richards’s own family was nearly destroyed by addiction, fighting back against meth became a personal crusade.

It was just a kayaking trip. Then it upended their lives.

The Tacoma Refugee Choir founder didn’t anticipate its impact on her—or her city.

What prompts a woman to exit society and marry God? Inside a modern convent in Texas.

A journey to explore the rising authoritarianism in Hungary and its weirdest fringe: the people who believe they’ve descended from Attila the Hun.

What one funny-looking fish taught us about evolution, the internet, and the monsters we create.

Transition House had to be true to its principles and then it had to leave them behind.