The California Sunday Magazine

When one young unidentified Mexican national ends up comatose in the hospital after a car crash in the California desert, he comes to represent the struggle thousands of families endure when their friends or family disappear crossing the US-Mexico border.

Between the drug trade, immigration, Border Patrol pursuits and poverty, paramedics in the border town of Laredo, Texas get little rest but lots of respect. Law requires medics treat anyone in need, so here among the cactus and mesquite, “Border Patrol agents get spit as a topping at a local takeout joint; paramedics get discounts.”

The hunt for a mentally ill man hiding in California’s redwoods leaves his family wondering if there were any way he could have been helped earlier.

In Colombia, where a majority of people practice Catholicism, a small community goes on a difficult journey to convert to Orthodox Judaism.

Looking to hire fake paparazzi, pretend campaign supporters, or counterfeit protesters? A company called Crowds on Demand can service all those needs.

How superstar Danish chef René Redzepi created an entirely new restaurant in Australia, moving the culinary juggernaut Noma from Copenhagen to Sydney for a ten-week residency.

A profile of Tinder co-founder Sean Rad; the formerly ousted frontman is now back in charge of the company.

How a respected psychiatrist and loving father and husband became an uncaring drug dealer.

Can the Pentagon do business with Silicon Valley? E.B. Boyd looks at what happens when the military meets the tech world.

“How do you predict what evil someone is capable of?” The story of right-wing extremists, and the undercover cops who busted them.