Shamir is 15, bored and broke and balancing right on the edge.

Afghanistan’s Kyrgyz nomads survive in one of Earth’s most remote places, a pocket of land 14,000 feet high where the currency is sheep, the dream is a road, and many will go an entire lifetime without ever seeing a tree.

Although she is one of the richest writers in the country, her finances are a mess.

As “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” comes to an end, a conversation with gay servicemen past and present.

An oral history of a family in Mexico City, in transition from poverty to the lower-middle class, as they scramble to organize the burial of a slum-dwelling aunt.

A nation strips 210,000 of citizenship and sets the stage for mass deportations.

Investigating the murder of a Costa Rican conservationist.

A small Texas town suddenly finds it’s the home of a possible cult.

On the rise of DIY genetic engineering.

The story of a broken neighborhood.

An oral history of Air Force One on September 11th.

A new kind of late capitalism.

“In all his life, this was the moment of his greatest defeat.” On the death of George McGovern’s daughter on a cold winter night in Madison, Wisconsin.

In the Swiss town of Meiringen, where an obsessed group of ‘pilgrims’ painstakingly recreate the death of Sherlock Holmes.

Professional wrestling as the epitome of American capitalism.

A profile of the first and only transgender MMA fighter.

An oral history of the soap opera.

A profile of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick.

On the “horrible weirdness” of Kim Jung Il’s Korea.

A posthumous profile of Whitney Houston.

He was on a flight bound for the English Premier League. Then he was gone.

Inside an infected White House.

Against all predictions, the Taliban took the Afghan capital in a matter of hours. This is the story of why and what came after, by a reporter and photographer who witnessed it all.

A season with the American Football League of China.

Pimp, brawler, Old Master.