A critique of Davis Guggenheim’s Waiting for ‘Superman’.

In the feral communities of Russia’s Far East, tiger poaching is among the few lucrative pursuits. This is the story of a tiger who fought back.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, oil magnate and once the richest man in Russia, delivers a speech from prison, where he has lived since 2003.

A stroll through Tokyo’s Tsukiji, the world’s largest seafood market, and the mecca of the global sushi trade.

A profile of Yao Ming published during his second season in the NBA.

A profile of video game artist Shigeru Miyamoto, the man behind Super Mario Bros.

It’s now routine for corporations to outsource the task of generating new ideas. A look at the consulting firms who meet that need.

On the evolution of Nigeria’s booming film industry, which produces 50 full-length features a week.

On Huck Finn, the book Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, and the evolution of language and race in America.

A profile of A.J. Daulerio, editor of Deadspin and procurer of, among other things, cell phone pics of Brett Favre’s penis.

Reporting from Kuwait on the week of its liberation, a brutal account of the atrocities committed during seven months of Iraqi occupation.

A look at what it takes to protect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad when he’s in New York City.

A profile of Republican Eric Cantor: six-term congressman, new House majority leader, highest-ranking Jewish elected official in American history.

A profile of Vova Galchenko, teenage juggling virtuoso and early viral star.

“By the time we got to Woodstock 99 …” In a grim finale, the nineties get their Altamont.

On two gay men in Pennsylvania who tried, and failed, to build a commune of their own.

On Arielle Holmes, a burgeoning actress who was, literally, plucked from the streets.

Searching for the line between courage and humility on an expedition to Cirque of the Unclimbables, a remote ring of perfect rock-climbing mountains in Canada.

A central Massachusetts city enabled the author’s ancestors to move into the good life of the middle class. That move is more complicated today.

Who authorized the bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan, and why?

Once viewed as a forensic “silver bullet,” DNA evidence is coming under fire.

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

An ancient document suggests that Jesus had a wife. But an investigation into its origins leads to … Florida.

Inside a pageview scam.