Tom Catena is the only surgeon for thousands of square miles in Southern Sudan. His hospital, and his life, are constantly under threat. There is no end to the carnage he must treat. He refuses to leave.

A reporter on her way out of India probes a case of a woman beaten to death by her husband in public.

400,000 Wiki-leaked reports that confirm the minute-by-minute misadventures of a “military at war with its own inner demons” in the unforgiving terrain of Iraq.

Power worship blurs political judgement because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible. If the Japanese have conquered south Asia, then they will keep south Asia for ever, if the Germans have captured Tobruk, they will infallibly capture Cairo; if the Russians are in Berlin, it will not be long before they are in London: and so on. This habit of mind leads also to the belief that things will happen more quickly, completely, and catastrophically than they ever do in practice. The rise and fall of empires, the disappearance of cultures and religions, are expected to happen with earthquake suddenness, and processes which have barely started are talked about as though they were already at an end.

A war criminal’s life on the run.

The story of Bowe Bergdahl, a soldier who walked off his base in Afghanistan only to be captured by the Taliban.

A reporter encounters the echoes of family and the struggle for civil rights in Mississippi.

The President’s former lawyer, and the fall guy in his web of misconduct, looks like a victim as well as a perpetrator.

How do you tell the world you are grieving? In my case, it was a year-long Twitter thread about finding the things that made me feel better.

It’s been a rough year.

On a 16-year-old with a debilitating disorder: trichtillomania.

On Ryan Coogler’s film.

Refugees arriving in the U.S. after receiving asylum face challenges that have led some to return to their war-torn homelands.

A profile of 23-year-old Leonardo DiCaprio (and his rowdy crew).

A midwife, a rash of stillbirths and miscarriages, and a town whose economy depends on fracking.

High school dropouts are descending on San Francisco with nothing more than a backpacks full of clothes and ideas.

A profile of a woman who spends her days evangelizing Donald Trump on TV.

Millions of Americans have taken antidepressants for many years. What happens when it’s time to stop?

For 60 years, American drivers unknowingly poisoned themselves by pumping leaded gasoline into their tanks. Clair Patterson—a scientist who helped build the atomic bomb and discovered the true age of the Earth—took on a billion-dollar industry to save humanity from itself.

How history forgot Felipe and Vivián Espinosa, two of the American West’s most brutal killers—and the complicated story behind their murderous rampage.

Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman were friends. Until they weren’t.

What is the defining achievement of Barack Obama?