How Goldman Sachs made $5 billion by controlling supply and manipulating the aluminum market.

Everyone just wants to know if he’s going to the football game.

What happened when Pakistan shut down the vitally important Karachi to Kabul trucking line.

What happens when a complete stranger becomes convinced you’re the Zodiac killer.

Jason Matthews worked at the CIA for more than 30 years. Then he started writing spy novels.

“Everyone on the boat is racist and nice. Including me.”

What it means when an investigative reporter’s undercover work is framed as a personal journey.

A dispatch from Cape Town, where surprising things can happen when it feels like the world is about to end.

Is Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions existential threat, a last resort, or both?

A report from Antartica, where the ecosystem is changing so fast scientists have no idea what will come next.

Leo Rodgers is the irrepressible gravel-racing hero we all need now.

How a landscape architect is enlisting nature to defend our coastal cities against climate change—and doing it on the cheap.

How to drive across America in less than 32 hours and 7 minutes.

For centuries, a little town in Belgium has been treating the mentally ill. Why are its medieval methods so successful?

Protests against the Putin regime are already drawing over 100,000 in sub-zero weather; what will they become when spring arrives?

Ed Rosenthal recounts the six days he got lost in Joshua Tree National Park.

Inside the conflict that has caused more deaths than any since WWII—with no end in sight.

Modern methods allow the Islamic State to keep up its systematic rape of captives under medieval codes.

The “naked technological realities” of America’s heartland and how they power a “cosy coastal world of pretend farmers’ markets and happy cows.”

The long legal saga of Kerry Max Cook, who for almost 40 years fought to clear his name after being convicted of murder.

What U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul has seen in Russia since he arrived two and a half years ago.

During his career, Josh Luchs gave college athletes thousands in cash, meals, and trips. Now he’s retiring and coming clean.

In the 1970s, Kelbessa Negewo was a midlevel administrator in Ethiopia’s brutal Red Terror regime. In the 1990s, he was a bellhop in an Atlanta hotel. Then someone he had tortured back home recognized him.

Y.A. Tittle, an 87-year-old Hall of Fame quarterback with dementia, travels to his hometown for the last time.