On a muggy summer afternoon in 2023, I was standing beside a pond with five near-strangers in their 40s and 50s. Before I knew what was happening, they all gave each other a nod of agreement, stripped ...

Ninety-two adults and 13 kids live off of 450 acres of land together. — -- About 8 miles away from the small town of Louisa, Virginia, a mysterious hidden community is nestled deep in the woods.

In 1970, Margaret Grundstein abandoned her graduate degree at Yale and followed her husband, an Indonesian prince and community activist, to a commune in the backwoods of Oregon. Together with 10 ...