Gold mined in the jungles of Peru brought riches to three friends in Miami—but it also carried ruin.

John Ross, rebel reporter, became the sort of devoted gringo scribe who would give up drugs and drinking in order to better write about the native revolutionaries; the sort of man who used dolls to preach armed revolution to high schoolers in the weeks after September 11th.

“Some of the best lines — and I’ve been lucky to hear really nutso lines over the years — are not in response to any kind of question. It’s in response to, ‘I don’t know.’”

In the Winter of 1964, the Fab Four rocket to superstardom in just six weeks.

The Philippines is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a journalist, especially if you’re in talk radio.

The EPA called it the most severe exposure to a hazardous material in American history. The only people in Libby, Montana, who didn’t see it coming were the victims.

On conspiracy theories in sports, from the ‘85 NBA draft lottery to Michael Phelps’ gold medal performance in the 100-meter butterfly.

There are many explanations for the rise in killings in U.S. cities, including the pandemic and the choices made in response to it. In Philadelphia, the causes, the human costs — and the suffering — are particularly stark.

In an elaborate FBI sting to expose corruption, four agents pose as futures traders in Chicago. The plan works–if you don’t count the hundreds of thousands in taxpayer dollars the agents lost in the process.

A vegan sets out to see if there’s an ethical, sustainable way to eat fish in 2015.

A feat of elegant design wowed elite architects and promised to bring education to poor children in Nigeria. Then it collapsed.

In 2015, my friend and I went to Disney World. Three years later, she went on a solo trip to prison.

A visit to a colonial debutante ball in Texas, where girls wear hundred-pound dresses and pretend to be Martha Washington.

She wanted to ride with men in one of the world’s most dangerous sports. She had a lot more than her competition to be worried about.

The Texas Department of Transportation intends to spend $25 billion widening highways to fix traffic in Texas cities. What if we tore them down instead?

The gospel according to nine-year-olds; a missionary group that won the right to evangelize in schools and how children process their message.

Incremental changes in abortion laws lead to a system where women “turn themselves into pretzels” just to find a doctor.

In 1975, Jackie O., widow to a president and tycoon, decided to become a literary editor.

In the midst of a national crisis, mothers addicted to drugs struggle to get off them — for their babies’ sake, and their own.

The author spent a day with three men in a high-end security detail to find out how it feels to be safe.

The story of Héctor Espino, the greatest hitter never to play in the majors.

Is the desire in teens to switch their sex a mental disorder that needs treatment?

A trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos.

A man tries to rebuild his life after killing four people in a car crash.

The right to choose in Rapid City, South Dakota.