Ron Capps served in Rwanda, Darfur, Kosovo, Eastern Congo, Afghanistan, and Iraq. When he got back, writing was the only thing that could truly bring him home again. By Kristina Shevory.

Inside a secret Cold War in the nation’s heartland. By Ted Genoways.

At the height of her career, the beautiful young performer accidentally stumbled into a power struggle between Hollywood communists and McCarthyites. By John Meroney.

Home to one of the most brazen, deadly corporate gambits in U.S. history. By Mariah Blake.

Pollinators are vanishing, and a silent spring could become a horrifying reality. So why won’t the EPA do more? By Alex Morris.

Structured-settlement annuitants are lured by quick cash to unload their future payouts for dimes on the dollar.

Nothing since the triumph of the Vandals in Roman North Africa has seemed so sudden, incomprehensible, and difficult to reverse as the rise of ISIS.

Ever see a super-old, super-rich guy out on the town with a super-young girl who’s super out of his league and wonder, how the hell did that happen? This is how it happened. By Taffy Brodesser-Akner.

A family epic spanning the GRACIE JIU-JITSU dynasty’s generations of combat and betrayal, from the Amazon to Hollywood to the UFC.

Bruce Springsteen’s breakout album embodied the lost ‘70s—the tense, political, working-class rejection of an increasingly unequal society.

"Each tape seemed to have its own particular note of decay, like the taste of the barnyard in a wine or a cheese. You came to love each one, as you might a three-legged dog. Or, having decided that it all sounded like one long meandering dirge, you went back to whatever normal people listened to."

Would the Summer of Love have ever happened without Stanley, the reclusive acid impresario who turned on the world?

There were raised voices and broken glass and the high-voltage emotions that pinball between a wild teen and her worried mom. In their Davie home, Bonnie had installed new locks on the windows to keep her 16-year-old daughter, Cathy, from sneaking out again... By Kyle Swenson.

The world is about to get a lot more crowded.

After the [other] Waco massacre. By Alan Jacobs.

When a horrifying bacterial infection disfigured my newborn face, my parents abandoned me right there in my hospital bed. The only thing more painful than knowing they left me behind was finding them 38 years later. By Howard Shulman.

On Monday mornings, fresh recruits line up for an orientation intended to catapult them into Amazon’s singular way of working. They are told to forget the “poor habits” they learned at previous jobs, one employee recalled. When they “hit the wall” from the unrelenting pace, there is only one solution: “Climb the wall,” others reported. To be the best Amazonians they can be, they should be guided by the leadership principles, 14 rules inscribed on handy laminated cards.

The Explorer’s Club headquarters fill a five-story Jacobean townhouse on East 70th Street in Manhattan. The inside looks lifted from the opening scenes of an Indiana Jones movie: Wood panels, stuffed leopards snarling, mounted expedition flags, and photographs of triumphant explorers line the walls... By James McGirk.

The long read: He terrified opponents as a stellar QC. Now he’s a supreme court judge and revered historian – the establishment personified. So why is Jonathan Sumption not a household name? By Wendell Steavenson.

The board abandoned integration. No places were affected more than Pinellas County’s black neighborhoods. By Cara Fitzpatrick, Lisa Gartner and Michael Laforgia.