A mission in Baghdad to let a photojournalist get a shot of an insurgent corpse ends up getting a Marine killed.

A profile of Rahm Emanuel, written during his first congressional campaign in Illinois. Emanuel was running to fill the seat vacated by Rod Blagojevich.

On a book of photographs shot by Leni Riefenstahl in the 1950s and 1960s depicting an African tribe.

How virtual worlds like Ultima Online form economies and the sellers who make a living in digital goods.

On the mysterious life story of blues icon Blind Willie Johnson and a half-century of attempts to fill in the blanks.

A veteran black Metro columnist, adrift in a rapidly shifting D.C., rankles an incoming generation of gentrificationists.

A reporter heads to Istanbul, where Iverson is playing minor league hoops in a 3,200-seat arena and hanging out at T.G.I. Friday’s.

On the utter brutality of life in the tent cities, one year after the earthquake.

The diary of a Scranton, PA National Guardsmen tasked with guarding the highest profile prisoner in U.S history: a surprisingly amiable Saddam Hussein.

J.D. Salinger on the beaches on D-Day, marching through concentration camps, and in liberated Paris.

Emmanuel “Toto” Constant, the founder of a barbaric Haitian paramilitary group, vanished from Port-au-Prince and resurfaced as a real estate agent in Queens.

In an upscale Denver condo, twice-a-month they convened from Thursday to Sunday with 95 percent-pure Shabu.

A roundtable on sexism in Hollywood and comedy.

Park Service and Forest Service employees face sexual harassment and assault in America’s wild places.

The revival of a landmark 1921 musical opens a door on the deep and twisted roots of black performance in America.

How three friends and a team of frat brothers made a fortune smuggling people along the most heavily patrolled stretch of highway in Texas.

Reince Priebus was about to go down as the most successful GOP chairman in party history. Then Trump happened.

“Private prisons are shrouded in secrecy. I took a job as a guard to get inside—then things got crazy.”

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

A reporter learns to slice lox—and digs into a Los Angeles landmark’s millions in debt.

For three days, thousands of uninsured Americans converge on the Wise County Fairgrounds for the largest pop-up clinic in the country.

How modern slot machines develop a nearly unbreakable hold on the brain, leading around one in five pathological gamblers to attempt suicide.

On a mysterious migrant in a San Diego hospital bed, and the thousands of families who hope that he’s theirs.

When a creature mysteriously turns up dead in Alaska, veterinary pathologist Kathy Burek gets the call.

The story of Martin McNally, who hijacked a plane in 1972. Among other crimes.