Hannah Arendt attends the trial of Adolf Eichmann.

The Mosul Dam is failing. A breach would cause a masssive wave that could kill as many as a million and a half people.

Leaking from the inside, leaking from the outside.

A photographer’s quest to document a changing planet from above.

What it takes to defect from the military state of one of the world’s youngest countries.

Rosie grew up in a succession of decrepit houses in South London with one man and a rotating cast of women, who claimed that they had found her on the streets as an infant. The man, Aravindan Balakrishnan—Comrade Bala, as he wanted to be called—was the head of the household. He instructed the women to deny Rosie’s existence to outsiders, and forbade them from comforting her when she cried.

Carrie Goldberg is a pioneer in the field of sexual privacy, using the law to defend victims of hacking, leaking, and other online assaults.

The story of William Morgan: American, wanderer, Cuban revolutionary.

How the woman who brought Westboro Baptist to Twitter came to question the church’s beliefs.

How a Madrid workshop is perfecting the art of copying imperiled art, from Egyptian tombs to Renaissance paintings.

The White House after Election Day.

The bloody reign of Rodrigo Duterte, who was elected President of the Phillipines in May.

An Oxford philosopher pursues the formula for morality.

An artist at the end of his life.

Predicting the first 100 days.

A journey through Venezuela, once the richest country in South America, but now collapsing under the weight of the world’s highest rates of inflation and violent crime.

A long stroll through a Staten Island cemetery leads to the story of the 19th-century free-black oystermen who settled Sandy Ground.

The Southern Baptist church, which has its origins in a split over slavery, at an election-year crossroads.

Can the Democratic presidential candidate win back the white working class?

The shrinking of the country’s ice sheet is triggering feedback loops that accelerate the global crisis.

We like to believe that the blame for wrongful convictions falls on individuals: the racist prosecutor, the crooked cop. It doesn’t always work that way.

Anatomy of a murder trial.

On Logan County, West Virginia.

A profile of the filmmaker Errol Morris as he prepared to release The Thin Blue Line after a decade of limited distribution, semi-poverty, and a side career as a private detective.

A profile of the comic.