Local communities are taking the world’s largest polluters to court. And they’re using the legal strategy that got tobacco companies to pay up.

In 1942, a volley of torpedoes sent the U.S.S. Wasp to the bottom of the Pacific. Earlier this year, a team of wreck hunters set out to find it.

Mike Pompeo’s mission: clean up Trump’s messes.

What happens when people who have trouble fitting into a traditional workplace get one designed just for them?

Computer programming once had much better gender balance than it does today. What went wrong?

"It is one thing for you to get a correct image, and it is another thing for me to spoil my life."

In many parts of America, like Corinth, Miss., judges are locking up defendants who can’t pay—sometimes for months at a time.

How we respond to the rules of the road offers insight into being human.

Tracing an airstrike halfway around the world back to an American bomb factory.

He wants you to know one thing: He’s not even angry.

Can artistry trump athleticism in figure skating?

Can blockchain create a new, better internet?

A profile of the irrepressible Trump campaign foreign-policy adviser.

Can the star of ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ help reclaim women’s place in stand-up history?

A U.S. Marine’s journey from the Afghan war to an Illinois prison.

For decades, the United States and Britain’s vision of democracy and freedom defined the postwar world. What will happen in an age of Donald Trump and Nigel Farage?

The legendary artist has radically upended his distinctive style of portraiture—and his entire life. Why?

What the Fresh Air host has learned after 13,000 interviews.

On Billy Joel’s sardonic gloom.

On the writer’s new book and tell-all style.

Raising a cow on an industrial feedlot.