Over the past five years, the Syrian government has killed almost 700 medical personnel. Inside the race to spread medical knowledge as the Assad regime erases it.

How an obscure Australian judge and a hard-charging lawyer put the S&P on trial for the global financial collapse.

The search for the missing Holocaust hero began in 1945. The unending quest tore his family apart.

Searching for (and easily finding) Mark Augustus Landis, the man behind the “longest, strangest forgery spree the American art world has known.”

David Boies argued Bush v. Gore all the way to the Supreme Court. He lost the case, but in the process gained another client: Harvey Weinstein.

The rare Chilean soapbark tree produces compounds that can boost the body’s reaction to vaccines.

What it means to be an entrepreneur in Argentina, where economic crashes are a way of life.

A profile of Donald Trump’s son-in-law and de facto campaign manager.

Uncovered letters reveal ties between the literary magazine and the CIA’s Congress for Cultural Freedom.

The author investigates the massive wildlife die-off in the Salton Sea by rafting from its tributaries in Mexico.

After a murder in the California wilderness, the search for the killer raises complicated questions about mental illness.

The U.S. buried nuclear waste in the Pacific after WWII. It’s close to resurfacing.

Making bio-diesel is hard. Getting paid $100 million to not make it is surprisingly easy.

During my first weeks in Rogers Park, I was surprised by how often I heard the word “pioneer”. I heard it first from the white owner of an antiques shop with signs in the windows that read: “Warning, you are being watched and recorded.” When I stopped off in his shop, he welcomed me to the neighbourhood warmly and delivered an introductory speech dense with code. This neighbourhood, he told me, needs “more people like you”. He and other “people like us” were gradually “lifting it up”.

Excerpted from Notes From No Man’s Land

Makeda Davis emerged from more than seven years in prison to a life that is complicated, unfamiliar, and, sometimes, soul crushing.

On Yemen’s uncertain future.

How Dan Savage became America’s leading ethicist.

To be a foreigner is to be perpetually detached, but it is also to be continually surprised.