What links an eccentric Oxford classics don, billionaire US evangelicals, and a tiny, missing fragment of an ancient manuscript?

The enigmatic leader of the U.A.E. may soon emerge as the region’s most powerful figure. What does he really want?

How acute childhood trauma infects and compromises relationships later in life.

But despite all that has been promised, almost nothing has been built back in Haiti, better or otherwise. Within Port-au-Prince, some 3 million people languish in permanent misery, subject to myriad experiments at "fixing" a nation that, to those who are attempting it, stubbornly refuses to be fixed. Mountains of rubble remain in the streets, hundreds of thousands of people continue to live in weather-beaten tents, and cholera, a disease that hadn't been seen in Haiti for 60 years, has swept over the land, infecting more than a quarter million people.

Iranian operative Qassem Suleimani has been reshaping the Middle East. Now he’s directing Bashar al-Assad’s war in Syria.

For migrants who speak Mayan languages, a grassroots group of interpreters is often their only hope for receiving asylum.

The rise of Modi and the Hindu far right.

Daniel Kaye, also known as Spdrman, found regular jobs tough but corporate espionage easy. He’s about to get out of prison.

An archipelago off the African coast and its migration crisis.

A new Ned Kelly film explores the masculinity behind the mask.

The fading beauty of Japan’s traditional cafes and their signature snack.

Was she the reason he was alive today?

After six months of unrest, anti-Beijing protesters are increasingly unwilling to compromise.

Scientists in Brazil are trying to save the giant anteater from a growing threat: roads.

How a ferry disaster exposed the corruption devastating Iraq.

As psychiatrists and philosophers begin to define a pervasive mental health crisis triggered by climate change, they ask who is really sick: the individual or society?

How Walter Liew stole titanium white from DuPont on behalf of the Chinese government.

On Narendra Modi’s Hindu-nationalist movement.

The Arctic permafrost is thawing, revealing millions of buried mammoth skeletons. But the rush for mammoth ivory could put elephants in danger all over again

For 40 years, journalists chronicled the eccentric royal family of Oudh, deposed aristocrats who lived in a ruined palace in the Indian capital. It was a tragic, astonishing story. But was it true?

On the fraught relationship between Bolivia’s Evo Morales and the indigenous activists who support him.

How two interior decorators took the fall for the Cali Cartel.

The U.S. buried nuclear waste in the Pacific after WWII. It’s close to resurfacing.

Indigenous people and illegal miners are engaged in a fight that may help decide the future of the planet.

Inside the Hong Kong protests.