An Investigation Into Xinjiang’s Growing Swarm of Great Gerbils
Tracking a rumored gerbil infestation through China’s bureaucracy.
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The Torture Colony
A utopian German settlement in Chile had already turned darkly cultish by the time it became a secret torture site for enemies of the Pinochet regime.
Basta Bunga Bunga
On Silvio Berlusconi’s hedonism.
Berlusconi is Italy’s waning Hugh Hefner, alternately reviled and admired for his loyalty to his own appetites—except that he’s supposed to be running the country.
I Can Find an Indicted Warlord. So Why Isn't He in The Hague?
Tracking down a Congolese war criminal.
The Tunnels of Gaza
Life and death in an underground economy.
The Expendables
Life in the French Foreign Legion.
Kafka in Beijing
An alleged rape and one woman’s futile quest for justice in modern China.
Here & Gone
On the strange relationship between Lionel Messi and his Argentinian hometown.
Arab Spring Break
A 21-year-old UCLA math major leaves his $9,000-a-month internship to fight with the rebels in Libya.
Death on the Path to Enlightenment
Westerners’ spiritual quests in India gone wrong.
Inside China's Star-Making Machine
On China’s pop music charm offensive.
Leopold’s Ghost
A college president on the bizarre experience of being informed by NBC News that he had hired a war criminal to teach French.
Russia's Top Cyber Sleuth Foils US Spies, Helps Kremlin Pals
A profile of Eugene Kaspersky, KGB-trained online security mogul.
A Wild Week in Lagos
A trip to a modern African megacity.
Skin and Bone
An investigation into the global human tissue trade.
The Love That Dares
Confronting homophobia in Uganda.
The Kingpins
Crime, drugs, and politics in Guadalajara.
Lieutenant Accused of Murdering 109 Civilians
Revealing the murder of 109 Vietnamese civilians during a 1968 search-and-destroy mission on a rumored Viet Gong stronghold, often referred to in military circles as Pinkville, actually the village of My Lai.
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Cocaine, Inc.
How a Mexican drug cartel makes its billions.
French Women Worry About Getting Fat, Too
On Jenny Craig’s European expansion and how dieting differs in France and the States.
The Devil They Know
A profile of former Liberian president Charles Taylor, who was sentenced to 50 years today after being convicted of committing crimes against humanity.
The Great Taliban Jailbreak
On the escape of hundreds of insurgents from Kandahar’s Sarposa Prison through a tunnel dug from the outside, and an unlikely suspect: the jail’s former warden.
Finding Oscar
A man living in the Boston suburbs learns he could be one of the only survivors of a 1982 massacre in Guatemala.
Jamming Tripoli
Inside Moammar Gadhafi’s secret surveillance network.
The Madness of General Mladic
A profile of former Bosnia Serb military commander Ratko Mladic, whose war crimes trial began, and was abruptly suspended, this week.
