An unlikely corporation -- McDonald's -- has taken the lead in the campaign for animal welfare.

How corporations, prison guard unions, and police agencies help to shape who gets locked up and for how long.

Is there still a place in America for a competitive and independent family farm? And is the use of popular antibiotics on livestock leading us toward a public health crisis?

Examining the machinery and insidious legacy of war crimes, and the struggle for justice in societies convulsed by mass violence.

The United States inspires deep and conflicting emotions in other parts of the world. Since the terrorist attacks on September 11, America has been forced to pay closer attention.

For much of the 20th century, African Americans endured a legal system in the American South that was calculated to segregate and humiliate them.

Follow the international diamond trail from the buckets of child miners in war-torn Western Africa to America's jewelry counters.

During the war in Kosovo in 1999, war-crimes investigators suspected that Serbian forces were hiding evidence of atrocities by removing bodies of murdered Albanians from graves and execution sites. But until now, no one could say precisely what happened to many of these bodies.

This is the story of a secret and grisly operation by Serbian security forces to destroy evidence of possible war crimes in an industrial furnace in northern Kosovo.

Follow Russian writer Aleksandr Radishchev's 200-year-old footsteps from St. Petersburg to Moscow, and discover the soul of a people and the character of a nation.

The global economy is changing the way we think about food, from the kinds of things we eat, to the way food is grown and harvested.