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Every year, American Camp Association (ACA) camps provide millions of young people with transformative--even life-changing--experiences. From building new friendships to gaining new life skills, we know that the impact of [...]

At first glance, Masdar City appears a mirage. From a distance it looks like a single multicolored building, standing lonely on the horizon. Part of the illusion is due to [...]

The evening of January 5, 2005, was dry and cool in Graniteville, South Carolina. At 6:10, a 12-car Norfolk Southern freight train pulled up to the Avondale Mills textile plant, [...]

Meeko the calf Stood nuzzling a pile of hay. He didn't seem to have much appetite, and he looked a little bored. Every now and then, he glanced up, as [...]

It's spooky up here on the top floor of the Metals Bank & Trust Building. Shards of glass and crumbled plaster crunch underfoot, obscuring the elegant tile pattern of the [...]

US Highway 89 runs past many natural attractions including Glacier, Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks as well as the Great Salt Lake and the Grand Canyon, but the people and places between these attractions can be just as interesting. A tour of the highway is described.

The Reagan and Bush administration's war on drugs was a failure. In the first place, the effects of drug abuse pale beside those of alcohol and tobacco use. Rather than fighting drug abuse through education and treatment, Reagan and Bush chose to pour all funds into law enforcement, resulting in overcrowded prisons and court congestion so severe that federal judges no longer have enough time to devote to their civil dockets. Punishing drug users has been seen as so paramount that their human rights received little protection.

Butte, Montana, is the place where the wild West married the Industrial Revolution. During the last quarter of the 19th century, a ragged mining camp here on the western slope […]

Byline: Dan Baum THE UNDAUNTED Gabrielle Giffords Is a Woman of the Year Because: 'She's a shining example of strength, perseverance and the ideals that transcend party or politics. She [...]

Byline: PHOTOGRAPH BY BRIAN FINKE BY DAN BAUM 'My Secret Life as a Spy for the CIA' These women jump out of airplanes, drive like the devil and lie to [...]

Byline: AS TOLD TO DAN BAUM photograph by Sivan Lewin 'I was kidnapped at age 4' Pepper Smith remembers the day she was stolen from her parents, and the abuse [...]

Of all the wars the United States has fought since 1945, not one has enjoyed the popularity of the War on Drugs. Americans tell pollsters they're more afraid of drugs [...]

Shortly before five o'clock one morning not long ago, a dozen people waited outside the locked glass door of a nondescript office building on West Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles. [...]

The downriver side of New Orleans has always evoked strong emotions. The French avoided it, settling the high ground of a Mississippi River oxbow that would become the heart of [...]

At the corner of Prytania and First Street, in New Orleans, stands a brick mansion with a French tricolor drooping from the gable. Eleven days after the levees failed, last [...]

Raul Jara's grandfather tilled a rich man's land on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, until agrarian reform in the nineteen-sixties made four acres of it his. By the time Raul [...]

Tim Bruneau discovered New Orleans in 1997, when, as a twenty-three-year-old soldier at Fort Polk, Louisiana, he was close enough to the city to hit Bourbon Street on weekends. He'd [...]

David Crier was doubtless flouting the spirit, if not the letter, of United Airlines' carry-on-bag regulations when he boarded Flight 1403 out of New Orleans one day in mid-October. Crier [...]

Last week's coverage of Hurricane Katrina Continuing coverage of Hurricane Katrina Jon Lee Anderson on rescue and recovery in New Orleans Joann Guidos, of New Orleans's Faubourg Marigny neighborhood, is [...]

HURRICANE KATRINA Nicholas Lemann talks with Daniel Cappello about the fate of his home town, New Orleans. From 1992, James B. Stewart on his Illinois home town, threatened by floodwaters [...]

HURRICANE KATRINA Nicholas Lemann talks with Daniel Cappello about the fate of his home town, New Orleans. From 1992, James B. Stewart on his Illinois home town, threatened by floodwaters [...]

Jalan Wali Kota is a fashionable street in what had been until the past couple of months a rather unfashionable city: Medan, Indonesia. It may be the biggest city on [...]

The United States military has a long and bitter history of being constrained by the countries that host its overseas military bases. Thailand in 1975 objected to U.S. Marines using [...]

Dozing astride seats 62 F, G, and H on Thai Airways flight 775 to Bangkok the other day was a big, bearded man in a blue work shirt with 'Red [...]

During the early weeks of the Iraq war, the television set in my office was tuned all day to CNN, with the sound muted. On the morning of April 3rd, [...]

As a unit of the elite 82nd Airborne Division, Bravo Company found itself in some of the fiercest fighting last year during the advance on Baghdad. Its hundred-and-thirty-odd paratroopers are [...]

The New Yorker's complete coverage of the conflict in Iraq Carl Cranston joined the Army in 1997, when he was still a junior at Sebring McKinley High School, not far [...]

Dan Baum talks about the pains of war From 1942, the diary of a sergeant wounded in the Second World War From 1943, Philip Hamburger visits a veterans' hospital When [...]

Dr. John Morgan, a professor at the City University of New York Medical School, likes to call himself a pharmaco-ethnomusicologist. His first love is early-American vernacular music, and his apartment, [...]

The huge effort to restore Iraq's oil industry begins every day two hours south of the Iraq-Kuwait border, at the lavish Crowne Plaza Hotel in Kuwait City. No sooner does [...]

At Texaco Inc., not one of the company's top 500 executives is African-American, and for years black employees have complained of assorted forms of discrimination and race-baiting. The Pentagon has often been presented evidence of systematic rape and sexual harassment in its ranks. It has been found that 11 percent of women vets at a V.A. hospital endured rape while in uniform and another 10 percent had resisted an attempted rape by superiors or colleagues. The Texaco and Pentagon cases may be products of specific institutional cultures regarding blacks and women.