National Geographic stories take you on a journey that's always enlightening, often surprising and unfailingly fascinating.

National Geographic stories take you on a journey that's always enlightening, often surprising and unfailingly fascinating.

This story appears in the July 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the digital age ... images out of our publications—but first an admission about a time when we didn’t.

This story originally published in the June 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the fall of ... bigger than President Barack Obama’s first one. People lie to cover up bad behavior ...

This story appears in the January 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. To a degree unimaginable ... and political aspects of gender. But first, we define our terms. This glossary was ...

This story appears in the February 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. In 1418 the town ... myth of the Italian Renaissance. When the first histories were written, the losers came off ...

This story appears in the July 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Barry Bishop returned ... Bishop was on the first U.S. expedition to summit Everest. (See the story from the October ...