Expensive travel leagues siphon off talented young athletes from well-off families—and leave everyone else behind.

“It was very hard, as a man playing D1 football, to go to somebody and say ‘I’m having a hard time’.”

Murky water poses a growing threat to all sorts of marine life.

Athletes have been using food and drink to boost their performance for centuries. Does it work?

Wheelchair basketball, or rolstoelbasketbal, as it is called in the Netherlands, brings together a group of athletes who at one point thought they'd never play again. Filmmaker Tom Poederbach talks about the making of this short documentary, Perseverance, in an interview with The Atlantic.

What does a town do when most of its people lose their jobs nearly overnight? For the people of this small town, the surprising answer places heavy emphasis on the arts.

A state capital, a former whaling town, and a company birthplace.