Tom Catena is the only surgeon for thousands of square miles in Southern Sudan. His hospital, and his life, are constantly under threat. There is no end to the carnage he must treat. He refuses to leave.

A Syrian refugee’s epic escape route through Europe.

The writer’s relationship with two Moroccan prostitutes.

The possibilities and limits of investigative reporting.

The disappearance of the Ghost Boat and its 243 passengers off the Libyan coast.

Visiting a cattle market in Karachi, right before the feast of Eid.

An oral history of the disaster:

Someone said to me, or maybe I read it, that the problem of Chernobyl presents itself first of all as a problem of self understanding. That seemed right. I keep waiting for someone intelligent to explain it to me.

One prison’s efforts to rehabilitate captured members of Boko Haram.

A former prostitute turned arctivist and her taxi-driver husband go undercover in Iraq’s brothels.

The photographs that Caesar, a Syrian military photographer, smuggled out of Assad’s death dungeons.

The most successful songwriter of the last twenty years is a forty-four year old Swede, Max Martin.

Tracking the slayings that shocked Sweden.

Controversy following a climbing disaster that killed eight.

Surviving the earthquake in Nepal – on Mount Everest.

Who killed four people in the French Alps?

Struggling with depression and thoughts of suicide, Army officer Lawrence Franks went AWOL. Five years later, he reappeared as Christopher Flaherty, a member of the French Foreign Legion who served three tours in Africa. Then he was court-martialed.

Ken Dornstein’s older brother died when a bomb exploded on Pan Am Flight 103. For the past three decades, he’s been obsessed with identifying who’s really responsible.

Inside the Nairobi Westgate Mall massacre.

While a Marine stationed in Afghanistan, Austin Tice decided he wanted to become a war photographer. He entered Syria and filed stories for McClatchy and the Washington Post. Then he disappeared.

The family accused of funding the Pakistani Taliban.

Who was Ashraf Marwan working for when he fell to his death from the balcony of a London flat?

After a non-profit’s documentary about a central African despot became the most viral video of all time, the founder had a nude nervous breakdown on the streets of San Diego. Now he’s back.

Creating a new, clean police force in the Ukraine.

Two men try to disrupt the gray market of Chinese death services.

The life of a trans woman on the border between El Paso and Juárez.