Inside New Haven’s Special Victims Unit.

A visit to Albania to watch Henry Marsh perform his pioneering surgery where the patient is kept awake during the removal of a tumor and the “brain is stimulated with an electric probe, so that the surgeon can see if and how the patient reacts.”

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.

A profile of new Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau.

Reckoning with what is owed—and what can never be repaid—for racial privilege.

On a thin sliver of land called Rojava where “rules of the neighboring ISIS caliphate ha[ve] been inverted,” a Kurdish Syrian college trains its future autonomous leaders.

How internet trolls dangerously exploit over-militarized police.

Bomb makers—including ISIS—have been on a quest to obtain red mercury, a weapon reputed to be powerful enough to “create the city-flattening blast of a nuclear bomb.” They haven’t found it yet. That might be because it doesn’t exist.

A profile of the writer.

The daily life and dwindling hopes of a 12-year-old Syrian refugee.

She told the family of a severely disabled man that she could help him to communicate with the outside world. Then she said they were in love.

The possibilities and limits of investigative reporting.

What happened when one of San Francisco’s most notorious underworld bosses tried to go clean.

Who we think we are in 2015.

The ragtag group of fighters from America and Europe who joined the fight against extremists in Syria don’t seem to know what they are doing.

Practicing photography in Switzerland.

‘‘Just imagine what it was like to be him,’’ Walton added. ‘‘It was 50 years of him being 18 inches taller than everyone and having the brain that he had. Imagine being this jazz head coming up during black power. This is just a dude who has a different head.’’

The struggles of Xavier University, a tiny, historically-black school in New Orleans, to train students for medical school.

The liberation of the Williams sisters.

Less than a week after Katrina, Michael Lewis goes home to New Orleans.

The most powerful man in publishing, unfiltered.

In Liberland, a small borderland between Serbia and Croatia, ‘‘government will be banned except for three things: security, legal stuff and diplomacy.’’

Visiting a semi-secret LGBTQ commune in the middle of Tennessee.

She was an overnight YouTube success. Then she tried to make a TV show.

The plot to erode the key legislative gains of the civil rights era.