It’s the “City of the Big Automobile,” raw and beautiful at once.

One man’s story.

A reporter returns to My Lai.

A last-minute trip to Sri Lanka.

A French reporter went undercover as potential “caliphette” and recieved a marriage proposal from a senior ISIS commander.

Gerry Adams, the leader of Sinn Fein, denies that he was ever in the IRA. The murder of Jean McConville threatened to expose him as a liar.

Hamid Karzai’s older brother owns a restaurant in Baltimore.

Bringing a serial killer to justice reveals the country’s other sources of death and suffering.

A women’s shelter in Afghanistan protects its inhabitants from their own families.

USB sticks bearing digital video are the new radio.

The despair behind the puzzle of what happened to Malaysian Airlines flight 370.

Guatemala discovers, in bat-guano spotted documents, the truth about its violent past.

“Okay,” I said. “What do you think is the percentage chance that I’m right?”

“I don’t know,” she said. “Five percent?”

After an election deadlock that held the country hostage for months, two former rivals confront Afghanistan’s patronage and corruption.

Justice isn’t so easy to come by when an American soldier stationed abroad is accused of murder.

A friendship born of mutual interest in birding stretches across the Berlin Wall.

In the age of citizen journalism, smartphones and streaming video, bearing witness to human rights violations is getting easier. Is it also making justice more complicated?

The young people fighting for democracy will be back.

While fleeing their Mali stronghold, al-Qaida left behind documents describing not how to terrorize a population, but how to govern.

The history of a powerful and violent secret society in the islands of southern Chile.

As a child, Hugo Lucitante was brought to America from a tiny jungle village in Ecuador. His heart’s still back home.

Critics call it “the radio of pimps and vagina-sellers.” But a popular new call-in show is helping a generation of Afghans navigate a battlefield full of strife and confusion and fear: modern love.

The disappointing tenure of Uruguay’s great lefty hope.

A man in a small town in India builds local power by owning the only computer in his village.

Reconstructing the investigation into Rafik Hariri’s assassination, for which five men stand trial in absentia.