In Peru, an unsolved killing has brought the Mashco Piro into contact with the outside world.

Centuries later, the Flemish master’s works are still open to interpretation.

Inside the final weeks of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

How Warren Hinckle and Ramparts magazine helped revive muckraking journalism and launch the New Left.

Inside the campaign to canonize the fire department chaplain who died on September 11.

How Andrew Anglin went from being an antiracist vegan to the alt-right’s most vicious troll.

On the promise of 23-year-old Nicholas Cleves, who died in the bike path attack in New York.

How the Coast Guard expanded the war on drugs into international waters.

How the GOP took control of state politics in Alabama, leaving black lawmakers—and their constituents—powerless.

Going on a fishing trip with the secretary of the interior.

A widow and her stepchildren battle Chase and each other.

An indecent proposal, a crime of passion, and legends of murder in an enclave of bohemian retirees.

It’s worse than you thought.

On the difficulty of diagnosing chronic lyme disease and the persistent struggle to do no harm.

The families who are choosing to live in the exclusion zone’s ghost villages and nearby.

The true story of a ring of thieves who stole millions of dollars’ worth of luxury watches—and the special agent who brought them down.

Charlie Santore sees Los Angeles from the inside, by breaking into safes whose owners can no longer unlock them.

Nannies and housecleaners have some of the hardest, least secure jobs in the nation. Now they’re organizing to change that.

What do you do when you hear that Mike Tyson is opening a weed resort in the middle of the California desert? You go investigate.

What one funny-looking fish taught us about evolution, the internet, and the monsters we create.

Thomas Joshua Cooper risks his life to document the world’s remotest places.

An insider watches Kink.com prepare to leave the hundred-year-old armory it occupies in San Francisco.

On the fraught relationship between Bolivia’s Evo Morales and the indigenous activists who support him.

History’s largest mining operation is about to begin. It’s underwater—and the consequences are unimaginable.

A discussion of the “limited but important” power of Occupy Wall Street’s open blog, “We Are the 99%.”