How the Syrian president stays in power.

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

A weekend with the only person on Earth who can survive five venomous snakebites in 48 hours.

The story of a sheriff’s deputy in Minnesota who took his own life.

"If anything happens to me," Ruettimann said, "give this to the reporter." After Ruettimann's death, Hereaux took the file down off his desk. Inside was a thick stack of loose-leaf documents, a manila folder stuffed with letters, and a catalog-size clasp envelope labeled "Reports." Written in black permanent marker in the margin of the envelope was the reporter's name: mine.

In 1980, a bankrupt gambler came up with a plan to get his money back. He built an incredibly complex bomb, one that was impossible to defuse and that only he knew how to move, and snuck it into a Lake Tahoe casino with an extortion note demanding $3 million. Part of the plan worked. Part of it did not.

After the 1919 Black Sox scandal, Ring Lardner, America’s first great sportswriter, walked away from the game.

When the Arlee Warriors cleared an astonishing path to the state basketball championship, they brought healing to the community.

How Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger and his Airbus A320 landed safely in the Hudson.

A travelogue through the contradiction-rich and predominantly Muslim Southern Thailand.

He wants you to know one thing: He’s not even angry.

Thea Hunter was a promising, brilliant scholar. And then she got trapped in academia’s permanent underclass.

To understand the state’s urban-rural divide, start by looking at Yamhill County’s proposed walking trail.

Since she first started working in the hospitality industry two decades ago, Vida Afram has cleaned nearly 60,000 hotel rooms.

Scientist George Price discovered an equation for altruism. First he let go of his possessions. Then he took his own life.

Climate change is propelling enormous human migrations as it transforms global agriculture and remakes the world order — and no country stands to gain more than Russia.

“And the Holocaust trumps art every time.”

A refugee survives the Rwandan genocide and finds a future in Atlanta.

The Tacoma Refugee Choir founder didn’t anticipate its impact on her—or her city.

The author visits Franklin County, Mississippi, where, according to census data, there are zero same-sex couples.

In the basement of the White House, in an office with no windows, an MFA grad named Ben Rhodes is telling the story of America’s foreign policy.

“The Farsi Island mission was a gross failure, involving issues that have plagued the Navy in recent years: inadequate training, poor leadership, and a disinclination to heed the warnings of its men and women about the true extent of its vulnerabilities.”