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Flying over the impoundment structure at Rocky Branch coal mine in Saline County, Illinois.

A Look Inside the Coal Communities in the Illinois Basin

In the first half of the 20th century, coal communities across the Illinois Basin boomed. In 1990, new regulations set off an industry implosion, and the vitality of the region went with it.

Inside a Vietnamese hair salon in Houston, Texas.

Houston’s Diversity Is America’s Future

Influxes of African, Asian, and Latino Americans helped Houston's metro area avoid economic stagnation. Could an expected demographic shift on the national level end up reviving other troubled cities?

The Stories Behind Some of the World’s Most Iconic Photographs

How nine photographers navigated floods, rubble, and suspicions of espionage to capture some of the most striking images of the last half-century.

Kate Wheeling, Francie Diep & Ted Scheinman

An extract from the Gutenberg Bible discovered in a library by an assistant who was searching the collection for something else. Experts confirmed the discovery by comparing the extract with a photocopy of the Gutenberg Bible, which was written with the same gothic font and printed by Johannes Gutenberg in Germany in the 15th century.

Revising the Bible

Evolutionary biology meets Adam and Eve in the archives.

The Fallacy of Endless Economic Growth

What economists around the world get wrong about the future.

Christopher Ketcham

The Business of Shooting Pigs From the Sky

A Texas-style response to the country's feral pig epidemic involves tourists with assault weapons and helicopters.

Ariel Ramchandani

A Trip Through Ecuador’s Cofán Community — and Its Disappearing Homeland

The indigenous Amazonian people stand strong, despite the forces that have despoiled their home.

Vianney Bernabé, 24, is a member of the Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles and assists other students during rehearsals.

The Making of a Mexican American Dream

Despite the rhetoric and hate crimes, Mexican immigrants are poised to reframe American culture, if white people would only let them.

Sarah Menkedick

Radical Efforts to End Homelessness: Street Scribes

The story of the literary magazine whose authors are all homeless.

"If you have a tent city like this, at least you can be safe. Nobody understands that. Everybody thinks the tent cities are just a waste of time."

Radical Efforts to End Homelessness: Inside the Tent Cities of Seattle

Personal stories from the residents of Tent City 3.