The story of freelance journalist Anna Therese Day.

Why China’s super-rich send their children west.

On the parasitic relationship between oil and the stock market.

In 1980, four American nuns were murdered in El Salvador. This is the story of how a young American official stationed there singlehandedly found the culprits.

Excerpted from Weakness and Deceit: America and El Salvador's Dirty War

The idea was to shoot a Neiman Marcus fur catalog in the Andes mountains, not get stranded on them.

There were so many ways the two planes could have avoided the collision. The odds were so slim. But high above the Amazon in 2006, a combination of technology and human fallibility brought them together.

For immigrants from Muslim-majority countries, applications for visas, asylum, green cards, and naturalization can take decades. Unless you’re willing to be an informant for the FBI.

A father’s search for meaning and justice five years after his son was killed during the Tahrir Square uprising.

Life and death with the young and radicalized.

The mysterious death of a champion Irish setter.

A war criminal’s life on the run.

The final days of the last Navy SEAL to die in Afghanistan.

A traveler tries to make sense of a beautiful island with a dark past.

In 2006, Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy working for British intelligence, was poisoned. As he lay dying, he worked with detectives to find his killer.

A report from the border of ISIS territory in Iraq, where civilians are battling to survive.

A secret meeting, and short Q&A, with the drug lord while he was still on the lam.

“In this scene, set at a government dacha, they are joined by their American counterparts at the State Department for a daylong picnic that grows increasingly informal, involving drinks, flirtation, a guitar jam and (spoiler) contact between two spies. At times in my new job, I feel like a spy myself, and one with a shaky cover. I don’t have a good answer for how I got here.”

Why “the legal equivalent of outer space” continues to exist, fifteen years after 9/11.

How PCC, once an inmate soccer team and now Brazil’s most notorious prison gang, coordinated seven days of riots throughout São Paulo using mobile phones.

Searching for a ghost of Meyer Lansky’s Cuba, a sex-show star who quietly disappeared from the island and was later immortalized in The Godfather Part II.

Since the Syrian rebel leader Hassan Aboud joined ISIS, taking with him fighters and weapons, he has been behind a sprawling mix of battlefield action and crime.

The bribery scandal, involving tests given for coveted government jobs and medical school admissions, began implicating high-ranking officials. Then people started turning up dead.

An ethnography.

The life and death of a gorilla named Julia.

Kelvin Villanueva had lived in America for 15 years. He had four kids. He had a job. Then he was stopped for a broken taillight.