Lynd Fruit Farm in Pataskala, Ohio, is packed every autumn with folks who come to pick more apples than they know what to do with. The trees are laden with ripe fruit, ranging from supermarket staples such as Red Delicious and Gala to the locally…

Rebecca Byrne wants to make a difference. She’s spent the past year and a half developing a hyperlocal philanthropic network in southwest Alabama, leading the creation of a veterans initiative to fund mental health and substance abuse treatments,…

New York City, in the early aughts, had one of the highest rates of heart disease deaths in the nation. Nearly 40 percent of deaths there were attributed officially to heart disease, according to Bob Anderson, chief of the mortality statistics branch…

A health care worker was on a routine visit to the home of an Iraqi couple in suburban El Cajon in San Diego County, California, in early 2016 when the housekeeper surreptitiously slipped her a note. The health care worker gave the note to…

American prosperity has been built to a large extent by reliable access to cheap energy, both domestic and foreign. So it came as a great shock to the economic system in October 1973 when the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries cut off…

Katie Davis spends her afternoons and evenings in therapy sessions with kids. As a clinical psychologist in private practice on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Davis helps young patients through severe anxiety, mood disorders and other mental health…

A home with boarded up windows in a neighborhood in Warrensville Heights, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, Oct. 11, 2011. The poverty rate in suburbs, once the iconic symbol of a stable and prosperous American middle class, rose twice as fast as it did…

Data from intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) technologies stream in every second of every day from nearly every corner of the globe, fed by a vast and varied network of data-gathering devices and systems controlled by the United…

It was January 1945, and the Nazis knew the end was near. The German ocean liner Wilhelm Gustloff, designed to accommodate 1,900, was packed with more than 10,000 soldiers and refugees when it ventured into the freezing Baltic Sea, part of efforts to…

For Iraqis returning to Mosul, the homes missing roofs and walls, filled with rubble, are a reminder of what existed before ISIS took control of the city in 2014. To the U.S. Army that helped liberate the city — originally designed as a fortress —…

The F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter represents the cutting edge of combat aviation technology, and it comes packed with weaponry and superlatives. It’s the only multirole stealth fighter in operation anywhere in the world, an aircraft with…

Andrew Applegate’s family has been in the fishing business since his ancestors moved from Cranbury, New Jersey, to the Sandy Hook area around 100 years ago. Along with some commercial fishing, Applegate’s father ran a couple of large party fishing…

The seductive infinity scroll of smartphones has families across America and around the world gathering in their living rooms — not to converse or even to watch TV together, but instead to stare down at their smartphones’ glowing screens and allow…

Concern about school environment is the leading factor driving Hispanic families to homeschool, as well as a desire to provide moral instruction and a dissatisfaction with academic instruction at schools. Source Didier Ruef/LUZ/Redux When Gabriel…

Within a year of moving in with her parents, Hope Oriabure-King had replaced the toilet she shared with her four children three times. Her little boys would flush Transformers and other stuff down the drain and clog the pipes, and though she says she…

Residents and visitors alike love Miami’s subtropical weather — crank up the AC! — and its dazzling oceanside setting, but climate change threatens the vibrant and booming metropolis’ waterfront assets. In fact, much of Miami’s multibillion-dollar…

Tarana Burke started the #MeToo movement because she saw something radical in mass healing from sexual assault. Having launched the campaign in 2006, she has said that “standing up and saying ‘Me too’ can be a deeply cathartic experience,” an…

Think of a child snuggling up to you on the couch, or a dopey-eyed pup greeting you at the door, or a moment of compassion from a friend when you’re feeling blue. Feel a little mushy? That’s because these are moments that make people feel most loved,…

If you’re interested in migration patterns, Detroit is a good place to grow up. After all, the Motor City has done more than any other metropolis to set restless Americans in motion. But what initially intrigued native son Thomas Cooke was witnessing…