A profile of Salam Fayyad, the Palestinian Prime Minister.

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 pre-Olympics profile of the now-gold medalist.

A week in the world of the Miss America Pageant.

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?

For the purposes of this essay, I’ll call it ‘ambient privacy’—the understanding that there is value in having our everyday interactions with one another remain outside the reach of monitoring, and that the small details of our daily lives should pass by unremembered. What we do at home, work, church, school, or in our leisure time does not belong in a permanent record. Not every conversation needs to be a deposition.

The story of Ota Benga, captured in the Congo, displayed at the World’s Fair, and brought to the Bronx Zoo in 1906.

“The conditions in America today do not much resemble those of 1968. In fact, the best analogue to the current moment is the first and most consequential such awakening—in 1868.”

The corruption and cruelty of the state’s response to suspected jihadis and their families seem likely to lead to the resurgence of the terror group.

A look at the Mexican drug wars from the point of view of a narco’s mistress in Juárez.

On the history of Earth Day and the failure of the modern environmental movement.

Our entire way of life depends upon the “cold chain,” the network of artificially refrigerated spaces that have reshaped the modern world.

Learning of a plot against the life of the newly elected Lincoln, Alan Pinkerton decamps to Baltimore and infiltrates the conspiracy.

On the overstated effect of the Santa Ana winds on human behavior and the understated impact of climate change on LA’s seasons.

On the frontlines of extinction in the Gulf of California, where the vaquita faces its final days.