Even the dumpster divers of America are becoming tech-savvy, well-earning entrepreneurs.

It’s not just the virus that stands in the way, it’s bureaucratic logistics, and the frightening look of those hazmat suits.

A French reporter went undercover as potential “caliphette” and recieved a marriage proposal from a senior ISIS commander.

The process of claiming a loved one’s body after a massacre at a Kenyan university.

The last all-male clubs in Britain are contemplating admitting women. But a significant proportion of their members still want to preserve the spaces as male-only.

How one community is struggling to understand and respond to a cluster of suicides.

How a high-powered lawyer and a rough-edged private detective ended up at the center of the biggest, dirtiest scandal in Hollywood history.

The life and death of Marla Ruzicka, a 28-year-old aid worker in Baghdad.

Ethnicity and primary education in Bosnia & Herzegovina.

Part of Guernica’s ‘Writer’s Bloc’ series.

On a U.S. soldier burned to the verge of death and the virtual-reality video game doctors used as treatment when he came home.

The history of “‘50s-era market-tested USDA White Pan Loaf No. 1.”

An unexplainable murder, double jeopardy, and military courts: the strange case of Tim Hennis.

On the ever-expanding world of targeted online advertising.

A writer’s trip home to Hot Springs, Arkansas, and the racetrack inextricably linked with the histories of his family and his hometown.

A profile of Robert Caro, who’s been working on a biography on Lyndon Johnson for nearly 40 years.

A profile of the Mexican newsweekly, a “lone voice” in reporting on the narcos.

On board the Perl Whirl 2000, a conference of hard-coding geeks on a luxury cruise ship.

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

On the Mexican drug cartel accused of laundering money with race horses.

A 7,000-word anatomy of the chaotic 9 minutes after the U.S. Supreme Court issued its health care ruling.

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

How a group of men with nicknames like “Emperor” and “Spear Carrier” tipped the balance in South Sudan’s fight for independence.

A college president on the bizarre experience of being informed by NBC News that he had hired a war criminal to teach French.

The inside story of how an ABC nature shoot in Africa end up producing  a snuff film.

How an alcoholic doctor simultaneously saved his own life and made what could be the medical breakthrough of the century.