How Juarez became the murder capital of the world.

The New York Times reveals the deception of 27-year-old reporter Jayson Blair.

The story behind the fall of Saddam’s statue in Baghdad.

On the future of the liberal Israeli newspaper Haartez.

A faked marriage between undercover agents leads to the arrest of a dozen drug dealers.

The story of the landmark musical’s improbable success.

A physiological theory of mental illness.

A week in the world of the Miss America Pageant.

The Pope’s vision for addressing climate change.

The family accused of funding the Pakistani Taliban.

The story of the family who couldn’t stop adopting.

Pakistani fishing communities struggle inside the nets of bonded labor.

Can a cowboy become the greatest polo player of all time?

It’s 11 p.m. when Larson at last agrees to meet me in the lobby of the Hampton Inn, next door to the Gurnee Grand. He’s just come out of a marathon closed-door meeting with his fellow exiled senators. Tall, gap-toothed, and handsome, but with a squished, broad nose, Larson appears in a fitted black overcoat, a sedate suit with a Wisconsin flag lapel pin, and an athletic backpack. He looks shockingly young, younger than his thirty years, and seems to be relieved that I am even a few years younger myself. We jump in my Chevy and head for the town’s late-night diner: Denny’s. By the time we settle into a booth, Larson has dropped the routine political affectations—the measured language, the approved talking points, the inauthentic humor. We’re cracking up comparing Republicans to evildoers on South Park and shit-talking mutual acquaintances in Milwaukee. And then, just as Larson is about to take a bite of his veggie burger, I ask the freshman senator if he is scared. “What would I be scared about?” he replies.

A profile of the Hell’s Angels following “front-page reports of a heinous gang rape in the moonlit sand dunes near the town of Seaside on the Monterey Peninsula.”

Over the course of a year, Luke Dittrich will be walking the entire 1,933 miles of the Mexico-US border “from the beach to Gulf” with a stroller. The first in a series.

In 1906, Enrico Caruso was arrested for molesting a young woman inside the Monkey House of Central Park Zoo, paving the way for the first celebrity trial of the 20th century.

Two truckers talk on a wintry Alaskan highway.

Trials and dangers abound for an interplanetary social worker.

Cemetery field recordings reveal terrifying messages.

A young man's connection with a circle-drawing, perceptive young woman.

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Slowly, Bobo pulled off his shoes, his socks. He stood up, unbuttoned his shirt, dropped his pants, his shorts. He stood there naked. It was Sunday morning, a little before 7.

How Alphonse “Buddy” Fletcher Jr., an openly gay hedge fund star, came to marry Ellen Pao, a partner at a powerful Silicon Valley firm, before they “went to war with their elite worlds.”

“We still have retrograde ideas about how pregnant women should feel, and we need to revise them — not only for depressed women but for all women.”

Attracted by lax regulations, industrial agriculture has descended on a remote valley, depleting its aquifer — leaving many residents with no water at all.