The dangerous work of harvesting your food.

Activists hoped President Obama would fight for stronger regulation. Eight years later, they’re still waiting.

A profile of Roseanne Barr and her multiple personalities.

Gaming the lottery seemed as good a retirement plan as any.

Decades ago, two parents sued a drug company over their newborn’s deformity—and changed courtroom science forever.

The case for gay marriage.

Arise Virtual Solutions, part of the secretive world of work-at-home customer service, helps large corporations shed costs at the expense of workers.

A father reflects on his son’s search for employment.

Searching for the alleged Kazakh Bernie Madoff.

Robert Vicino helps the rich prepare for doomsday.

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

On the then-new phenomenon of dead downtowns.

Searching for the truth about a site known for busting myths.

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

On geoengineering, a high risk/high reward fix for global warming.

Why our entire understanding of copyright is due for an overhaul.

On the decades-long quest for a zero-calorie sweetener.

How companies and large temp agencies benefit from—and tacitly collaborate with—an underworld of labor brokers, known as “raiteros,” who charge workers fees, pushing their pay below minimum wage.

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

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

Diné activist Nicole Horseherder’s long quest for equity from the rise and fall of the coal economy.

A new chapter for Ohio State’s football coach.

Searching for the world’s most prolific bank robber.

A reporter lounges at the exclusive club for months to study the beautiful people sipping rosé poolside—and whether they’re actually doing any work.