When Ian Coss decided to get married, every living member of his family who had ever been married had also been divorced. He wonders: are we doomed to…

A computer learns to speak with emotion and conviction but lacks the ability to distinguish good ideas from absolute madness. And a man has a chance to work…

A woman travels across the world to meet the last generation of Korean mermaids and comes away with an unexpected discovery.

Thousands of women give up everything to follow Mother Teresa and join her storied Catholic order, the Missionaries of Charity. But two sisters find that life inside this…

A woman in Veracruz, Mexico receives a map from a pair of anonymous strangers that leads her on a search to solve a mystery that’s haunted her for…

One text message turns the state of Hawaii into a state of emergency. From panic and fear to acceptance and joy, the people on the island confront death…

A severed head turns up in a small rural town. While police investigate this as a crime, they look at disturbed graves, search for missing people — suspect…

A tiny, pirate radio station broadcasts to the thousands of families trapped in ISIS-controlled Mosul. A man’s fingers fly across the keys with ease when he sits down…

Two women bravely come forward to report sexual misconduct by CHP officers. The officers were fired, but no criminal investigation followed. How do departments treat victims who come…

Cheyenne Brady knew next to nothing about the US census when she was given the job of counting everyone on her reservation. Writer Julian Brave Noisecat follows her…

A robber entered a bank in Irving, Texas, and walked out with a big bag of cash. And then it happened again. And again. But when FBI agents…

An Israeli soldier’s decision to speak out against his own violent actions comes back to haunt him. And a little girl in Brooklyn devotes herself to becoming a…