The complicated class politics of American eating habits.

The man who killed John Wilkes Booth was a eunuch. By choice.

The “zone of sacrifice” that is Oxnard, California, where low-income workers are paying the price for pesticide use and chemical dumping.

Everyone just wants to know if he’s going to the football game.

A mystery embedded deep within the Amazon.

Doug Dodd was a drug kingpin in high school. And now, like the narrator of a Scorcese film, he wants to tell his own story.

The mysterious death of one of college basketball’s most promising coaches.

What led to the 1970 explosion of a Greenwich Village townhouse, in which three members of the Weather Underground were killed, and what happened to the group after.

Excerpted from Days of Rage.

An independent pawn store stumbles along in an economically depressed Pennsylvania town.

What happend to Serafim Todorov after the 1996 Olympic featherweight semifinals.

A treatment for liver cancer gives the writer a fresh perspective on illness – and wellness.

A home for troubled children in California comes undone.

The rise of the Peoples Temple through the lens of an earlier group: Father Divine’s Peace Mission.

Old India and new, viewed through the prism of the writer’s hometown.

“None of this should have ever happened. It makes absolutely no sense at all. It’s truly crazy.”

A man in Puerto Rico stumbles on a brick of cocaine, and rather than sell it he decides to bury it. Others, hearing his story, cook up a plan to retrieve it.

“The regular average layman couldn’t see what I see. And the way they’re painting the trainer is all wrong. Look at him there, screaming, Do this! and Do that! I never had anyone telling me what to do. I did it. Shouting at the fighter like that makes him look like an animal, like a horse to be trained.”

The events that led the writer to spend 60 days in jail.

The drugs did not entirely deliver on their promise of anxiety reduction.

On loving Taco Bell, as a half-Mexican. A James Beard Award nominee.

Harry Shaughnessy was a suburban dad and a lifelong Catholic. Then he and his family gave up on God.

What happened to one of the most hated basketball players in NCAA history after playing a single season at Georgetown.

Cleaning up after the fisherman at a remote lodge in Northern Ontario.

One man’s story.

He built it as a “portal into a world of quiet.”