A field trip to the video gamey world of the modern trader.

Spending time with the residents of K6G, the only gay wing in the entire American penal system.

The United States fights wars it can’t win using soldiers it doesn’t know.

It isn’t easy to find out the truth about the benefits of male circumcision.

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.

How Google’s utopian/dystopian plan to scan the world’s books failed and the Harvard-led team that’s picking up the pieces.

The frenzied few days before the wedding of Prince Charles and Diana Spencer.

The underground routes by which drugs enter the U.S. from Mexico, and the officials who’ve found it almost impossible to curb their construction.

In the feral communities of Russia’s Far East, tiger poaching is among the few lucrative pursuits. This is the story of a tiger who fought back.

How the social networks that popped up in Facebook’s absence—the site is not available behind the Great Firewall—are changing Chinese culture.

Reporting from Kuwait on the week of its liberation, a brutal account of the atrocities committed during seven months of Iraqi occupation.

John Georgelas was a military brat and drug enthusiast from Texas. Now he’s a prominent figure within the Islamic State.

A 48-hour reconstruction of the Breitscheidplatz Attack and the political response.

The men whose profitable (and self-serving) antics preserved what we know of the Brontë sisters.

The Hollywood backroom machinations that got the biopic to movie screens.

A photographer captured the moment when a race organizer confronted a woman who’d snuck into the race.

In her fight to end sexual abuse, the Olympic champion is challenging the very institutions she led to glory.

The button that ruined the internet—and how to fix it.

A profile of the author on the eve on his debut novel, The Water Dancer.

The inside story of the president and Deutsche Bank, his lender of last resort.

The island of Borneo is the only home of the proboscis monkey, an endangered primate that is surprisingly resilient.

A profile of the actor in the wake of the loss of his wife.

Black men and women are still dying across the country. The power that is American policing has conceded nothing.

The remarkable stories of the nine other women in the Harvard Law class of ‘59.