He decided to bury a box of treasure in the desert. Why?

A brazen land grab in Zimbabwe and why it’s getting harder to stop multinational corporations.

Lenny Pozner used to believe in conspiracy theories. Until his son’s death became one.

How it feels to lose $30,000 in Bitcoin.

How cops use arcane pedestrian laws to racially profile people in Jacksonville, Florida.

What it means to be beautiful in the most populous country on earth.

The 20 soldiers in Second Platoon try in vain to hold down a strategic outpost in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley, “among the deadliest pieces of terrain in the world for U.S. forces.”

A profile of Nora Sandigo, guardian to hundreds of kids born in America to illegal immigrants.

A couple tries to give away their house in Flint, Michigan – but no one wants to live there anymore.

A 30-year-old funeral director in LA wants to help the living get closer to death.

Mel and Norma Gabler of Longview, Texas, want to tell your children what to learn in school.

A white gangster immerses himself in Asian culture to lead a Chinatown gang. He even learns to pour tea correctly.

In 1992, a magazine story introduced the world to the photographs of Sally Mann. Here, she responds to the firestorm that article produced.

A support group for trans veterans meets in New Orleans, linked to the only VA that is known to treat them with respect.

A profile of Anas Aremeyaw, an investigative journalist in Ghana who’s willing to do anything–and pose as anyone–to get the story.

Mike Picarella wanted to protect a co-worker from humiliating sexual harassment. He didn’t expect his own life to be destroyed in the process.

After years of whispers in her Polish community, Anna finally learned the truth about her father. Then she went to Sri Lanka to find him.

From Kenya to Amsterdam to New Jersey, an industry collapses in a matter of weeks.

A visit to Glenn Greenwald’s house in Rio.

What it was like to report on feminism for Playboy in 1969.

Why did a man travel 200 miles to die in a national park?

In order to keep running, Tom White cut off his own leg.

Unprecedented access to six months in the life of the President of the United States.

How to get high in America – legally.

The discovery of a new human ancestor, hidden in a hard-to-access cave.