Inside a small town revived by an influx of immigrants and then destroyed by a Homeland Security raid.

Obama’s presidency may well be defined by whether or not he can curb unemployment. Step One: find a decent idea.

In dozens of criminal trials, prosecutors have put the same gun in the hands of more than one defendant.

Andrew Therrien wanted payback. He got it—and uncovered a conspiracy.

A New Orleans football legend reached the pinnacle of the sport, playing in three Super Bowls. Then he disappeared.

On Montana’s Flathead Indian Reservation, basketball is about much more than winning.

An analysis of online activity during the 2016 campaign makes the case that targeted cyberattacks by hackers and trolls were decisive.

An interview with the actor.

Decades on, a massive half-built monument in the Black Hills remains controversial.

A group of volunteers is helping incarcerated people negotiate a system that is all but broken.

The fading beauty of Japan’s traditional cafes and their signature snack.

On the anti-communist genocide known by the Indonesian Army as Operation Annihilation.

How the murder of Timothy Coggins was finally solved.

Following the United Nations’ war crimes detectives who tracked down a man who helped unleash the Rwandan genocide of 1994.

How the Brazilian butt lift, one of the world’s most dangerous plastic surgery procedures, went mainstream.

Students come from around the world to struggling Redding, California, where the Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry promises to teach them to perform miracles.

A son chronicles his father’s death:

My father's mortician was a careless barber. Stepping up to the open casket, I realized too much had been taken off the beard. The sides were trimmed tidy, the bottom cut flat across. It was a disconcerting sight, because in his last years, especially, my father had worn his beard wild, equal parts loony chemist and liquor store Santa. The mortician ought to have known this, I thought, because he knew the man in life. My father — himself the grandson of a funeral home director — would drop by Davey-Linklater in Kincardine, Ontario, now and then for a friendly chat. How's business? Steady as she goes? Death was his favourite joke.

A profile of Jenny Offill, whose latest novel addresses climate collapse.

The story of Jejoen Bontinck, a Belgian teen-ager who travelled to Syria to fight with radical Islamists.

The period underwear giant struggles to live up to its corporate ideals.

On working in a war zone to pay the bills.

One story of coming to America from the Soviet Union.

To reduce recidivism, a program brings criminals face to face with their victims. The results aren’t always what you’d expect.

An essay on the “history, meaning and practice of suicide, from third-century Christian death cults to the Aurora Bridge.”

The producer of Big Star’s Third and piano player on ‘Wild Horses’ recounts a life of music in Memphis.