In the poorest congressional district in the country, where thousands of people are arrested each year, one former cop with a complicated past made high-profile cases fall apart by insisting that the ends justified his means.

A story from the end of the earth.

Was Edwin Raymond punished for not meeting quotas?

From the Tower of Babel to the birthplace of Abraham, from Saddam’s ruined palaces to fortified blast-proof checkpoints, a diary from a nine-day, eight-night tour of Mespotamia/Iraq.

In the early 1960s, Middle Eastern guys in Brooklyn introduced America to Arabic rock-and-roll.