In 1998, at age 45, Ken Bradshaw surfed the tallest wave in recorded history.

What happened when the founder of North Face and Esprit bought a chunk of Chile the size of a small state, intending to live with a select group inside it and turn it case study for ecological preservation. It turned out, however, that Chileans didn’t really like that idea.

The interior life of a sniper, the most misunderstood icon of the modern military.

Foreign policy as architecture; how embassies went from lavish social hubs to reinforced strongholds.

A blow by blow account of the seizure of a French cruise ship by Somali pirates.

The bloody, often surreal, fight for Kosovo’s independence was led by a man moonlighting as a roofer in Switzerland.