Two men, separated by more than 150 years, discover the folly of attempting Western-style capitalism in Micronesia.

In northern Nigeria, radical Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram is facing a vigilante backlash from armed teenagers with nothing to lose.

A Little League season in Camden, New Jersey, where the murder rate is 17 times the national average.

Tom Cruise did not, in fact, jump up and down on Oprah’s couch.

The gangs of Brooklyn’s Brownsville, an area with the higest concentration of public housing in America.

A profile of anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes, who has spent her career uncovering a hidden global market in human flesh.

A 21-year-old UCLA math major leaves his $9,000-a-month internship to fight with the rebels in Libya.

In the Swiss town of Meiringen, where an obsessed group of ‘pilgrims’ painstakingly recreate the death of Sherlock Holmes.

A week in the author’s life when it became impossible to control the course of events.

In 1968, the author revisits remote British Columbia, which he traveled two years earlier.

Is Bryan Saunders a drug-inspired outsider genius, or just in need of intervention?

A visit to the hotel North Korea starved to build, still unfinished after breaking ground in 1987.

On the actors who unwittingly starred in The Innocence of Muslims.

An internet pioneer loses hope in the promise of web culture.

How governments and private companies have engaged in digital arms trading by building a global black market for ‘zero day’ hacks.

Searching for answers 40 years after a Brooklyn man threw acid in the face of his 4-year-old neighbor.

On Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet, its uncanny knack for reflecting changes in Russian politics and culture, and the recent acid attack on its artistic director.

A profile of the deadliest sniper in American history, who was murdered last month by a fellow soldier.

Shulamith Firestone, one of the first radical feminists, helped to create a new society. But she couldn’t live in it.

In a Turkish hotel, veterans of the Libyan Revolution meet with their fractured Syrian counterparts to transfer know-how and heavy weaponry.

Twenty-six years after he was wrongfully imprisoned for the murder of his wife, Michael Morton sees the real killer brought to justice in a Texas courthouse.

A battle against an invasive breed of ants has begun in Texas. It also might be over already.

Did Remington Chase and Stefan Martirosian “orchestrate” a contract killing in Moscow?

How a once-lauded psychiatrist became a prolific prescriber of painkillers in one of Virginia’s poorest and most isolated counties.

“I guess what you post on Facebook matters.” An 18-year-old faces 10 years in jail for a sarcastic threat on Facebook.