Prospector

Long-haul truck driving is thriving in the United States, and remains one of the surest ways into the middle class, but minorities say discrimination is rampant.

• By Rick Rojas

As more and more coyotes move into San Francisco's urban core, one woman is bent on teaching the city how to peacefully co-exist with the animals.

• By Shelby Carpenter

Some Colombian paramilitary leaders accused of brutal human rights violations will not face justice—or their victims' families—until they've served sentences for American drug charges.

• By Murray Carpenter

Why San Francisco, a city known for its innovative thinking and environmental leadership, has been unable to save its official bird.

• By Jimmy Tobias

Virtually navigating our waterways sounds like a good time to outdoor enthusiasts, but it could also help policymakers monitor a critical natural resource.

• By Kate Greene

New York University roboticists are betting that a tiny aquatic machine will inspire the community to care about Brooklyn's neglected Superfund site.

• By Libby Copeland

At a police academy, future officers learn to test drivers' intoxication levels by testing the legal limit themselves.

• By John Stillman

Each year, hundreds of desperate patients seek relief from extreme pain in Montana’s retired uranium mines.

• By Madeleine Thomas

Immersive journalism uses virtual reality to insert viewers directly into the story—potentially revolutionizing how reporters and activists do their work.

• By Rachel Nuwer

Is America ready for a post-cow economy? What boutique farms—and petri dishes—mean for the future of agriculture.

• By Jared Keller

How the epic quest to find protein revealed a surprising link between climate change and obesity.

• By Peter Andrey Smith

Can a former police officer effect greater reforms from outside the force?

• By John Lingan

With few direct witnesses to Nazi atrocities left alive, some Germans are chasing ghosts. Literally.

• By Thomas Rogers

For a growing group of straight men, fertility clinics and gestational carriers are providing life after 40.

• By David MacNeal

Precious Lamb Preschool serves an especially vulnerable group: homeless children between the ages of two and six.

• By Marisa Agha

Defendants who can't make bail, regardless of their crime, are four times more likely to be sentenced to time in prison. So much for innocent until proven guilty.

• By Maura Ewing

The unsung glory of coming in last.

• By Maureen O'Hagan

Adjuncts on the edge resort to helping each other.

• By Alissa Quart

The clank of silverware, the sound of chewing, and other forms of torture. The trouble with misophonia.

• By Ed Cara

A bedbug researcher bleeds for science.

• By Laura Parker

A deaf theater company sings out.

• By Bettina Chang

Fretting over your options is part of a life well lived.

• By Chris Colin

Toshio Katsukawa is working to get the Japanese to eat only fish whose populations aren’t endangered.

• By Bonnie Tsui

For Central American migrants, the promise of work in the fields of California has dried up.

• By Lauren Markham