A man’s search for his kidnapped children in India and Nepal.

On the rise of Marine Le Pen, France’s right-wing presidential candidate.

A trip to the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles.

“A paean 2 Prince.”

Jay Miscovich spent his life wanting to hunt for treasure. In 2010, after just a few months of trying, he found half a billion dollars worth of emeralds at the bottom of the Atlantic. A few years later he killed himself.

A suburban teen attempts to build a reactor, radioactivity ensues.

Letters from a jailed French jihadi.

A doctor who helped pioneer Oregon’s Death With Dignity law receives his own terminal diagnosis.

Traveling by dogsled in the melting Arctic.

On the stories we tell ourselves about happiness and the indecent questions we ask women who decided not to become moms.

The writer’s relationship with two Moroccan prostitutes.

There’s a new endangered species in rural America: veterinarians.

The roots and effects of a biker shootout at the Twin Peaks in Waco, Texas.

The story of H.H. Holmes, America’s first serial killer.

The future of India’s “good minority,” the Parsis.

On Finland, the country most afraid of Russia.

A trip to the Famous Poets Society convention/contest in Reno.

A nation strips 210,000 of citizenship and sets the stage for mass deportations.

A Taliban intelligence chief’s death and resurrection.

Even an “obstructionist bloc” can’t resist handing prosecutors the indictments they want.

Sown by science, a new eco-faith takes root.

"The Colonel went out sailing. He spoke with Turk and Jew . . ."

The early days of electronic spreadsheets and how the tool transformed business.