On Thanksgiving weekend, I received a phone call informing me that we had just captured approximately 300 al-Qaeda and Taliban. I asked all our assistant secretaries and regional bureaus to canvass literally the world to begin to look at what options we had as to where a detention facility could be established. We began to eliminate places for different reasons. One day, in one of our meetings, we sat there puzzled as places continued to be eliminated. An individual from the Department of Justice effectively blurted out, What about Guantánamo?

The social network positioned its plan to bring the internet to millions of Indians as a gift. The country saw a catch.

A conversation about race, Hollywood, and what it’s like to be able to conjure weed out of thin air.

Forty years after the dirty wars and Pinochet’s coup, photographer David Burnett journeys back to Chile to visit the subject of his most famous image.

The gospel according to nine-year-olds; a missionary group that won the right to evangelize in schools and how children process their message.

A filmmaker goes to court to fight the television commercial break.

Immigrant farmers are flocking to the poultry industry – only to become 21st-century sharecroppers for companies like Tyson.

Her parents wanted Jennifer to be successful. The pressure may have led her to plot their murder.

When they go to bed tonight, white people will be five times likelier to get a good night’s sleep than African-Americans.

An attempt to figure out how the Times columnist came to care more about personal morality than politics.

For decades, airlines failed to turn a profit despite having a monopoly on the sky. This year they’re expected to make billions. Here’s why.

A writer returns home to find a toxic disaster, giant government failure, and countless children exposed to lead.

Mamoru Samuragochi’s story turned out to be too good to be true.

In 1975, Jackie O., widow to a president and tycoon, decided to become a literary editor.

In the midst of a national crisis, mothers addicted to drugs struggle to get off them — for their babies’ sake, and their own.

“It takes this huge amount of will and energy for anything to happen to you.”

The ace pilot risking his life to fulfill Richard Branson’s billion-dollar quest to make commercial space travel a reality.

The author spent a day with three men in a high-end security detail to find out how it feels to be safe.

How one man’s quest to spread Christmas cheer led to a miserable four-year war with his neighborhood.

A young British man was drawn to a white-supremacist group, until they started plotting to kill.

“I wanted to be prepared for the worst nature could throw at me. But the real threat turned out to be human.”

It wasn’t until death rates began to soar that society began to take the outbreak seriously enough.

Could shrunken heads from the Amazon hold the key to curing cancer? One man thought so—and spent a lifetime trying to prove it.

Why humans love to watch other creatures.