In the 1980s, as China was modernizing, they ran into a problem. There was no way to fit their 70,000 plus character language on a QWERTY keyboard. Today, the story of how they did it.

Being the first (and best) at something means taking on a big hunk of risk and pushing yourself to dangerous limits.

A look at what happens when the police don’t do the one thing you expect them to.

What do a hacked Belgian election, a falling airplane and a fleet of runaway cars all have in common? The answer just might lie in the stars.

In our first-ever election special, we set off to find a single vote that made a difference.

A look up and down the US nuclear chain of command to find out who gets to authorize their use and who can stand in the way of Armageddon. 

On the eve of the midterm elections, we look at one tweak to voting that could help bring democracy back from the brink …

Part Three of our Border Trilogy, in which we hear the story of a woman from Ecuador who died in the Arizona desert. And we ask, what could stop migrants from risking so much?

Part Two of our Border Trilogy, in which one Border Patrol agent changes the entire agency’s enforcement strategy, and one anthropologist tries to measure its deadly consequences.