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Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jennifer Senior has had insomnia for 25 years. Her new piece in The Atlantic is about her often futile attempts to fall asleep, and about the latest research into insomnia.

HBO's new documentary is divided into three parts, each focusing on a different aspect of Ms. Taken together, the film captures what made the magazine and its contents so unusual and meaningful.

Claire Schwartz has made it her goal to help reunite keepsakes that survived the Los Angeles fires — photos, kids' art, postcards — with their owners.

Search efforts continue for people still missing after Friday's floods, as questions swirl over what went wrong. Here's what we know so far.

The president of one of Lima's largest parent-teacher associations says at least 1,000 schools in the Peruvian capital are being extorted and that most are caving into the demands of the gangs.

Oakland’s mayoral special election has gotten gritty. Then, a cartoonist tells the story about a middle-school kid fasting during Ramadan. And, a song for Spring.

Writer and scholar Brando Simeo Starkey's new book, "Their Accomplices Wore Robes," follows the US Supreme Court from the Civil War to today. He makes the case that time and again the Supreme Court has chosen white supremacy over racial fairness.

Mandolin orchestras were everywhere during the early 20th Century. It turns out that the Bay Area is the birthplace of a mandolin super-group founded by a man who doesn't even play the instrument. He wanted to honor the memory of a Jewish mandolin ensemble whose members perished in the Holocaust.

As the 900-mile East African Crude Oil Pipeline project takes shape in Uganda, there is the promise of economic benefit. But it's shaking up the lives of some 100,000 people.

Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, says affected Texans are owed an investigation into what went wrong with evacuating flooded areas and how it can be prevented from happening again.

Crews continue to search in central Texas for victims of flash flooding that killed at least 82 people. Officials have been dealing with tough questions about why many were not warned to evacuate.

The dollar has just posted its worst first-half of a year since 1973. And now investors wonder — is it a sign that America is losing its financial standing?