On being black in an all-white Swiss village.

On living in Saudi Arabia.

On the deadly explosion in West, Texas.

Rampant rape and murder in the Brazilian slums.

Investigating the murky reality behind the attack in Libya.

An investigation into clergy sexual abuse in Philadelphia.

Joseph Mitchell immerses himself in the Fulton Fish Market.

The plight of the uninsured in a red state.

On the post-quake presidential election in Haiti.

The next big thing in the death business.

The days, weeks, and months after the worst mass shooting in modern American history.

Partying in Kavos during the pandemic.

Karen Holloman opened the door of her uncle's apartment with his best friend, Larry Young, a step behind. As they edged inside, she looked to her left and saw the end of her uncle's bed and his motionless feet. "He's been in here asleep all along," Holloman muttered, for a moment annoyed at the worry he had caused by not answering his phone. Her anger froze as she entered his room: The Rev. Marvin Moore lay dead in his bed, a bullet hole through the back of his head, a pool of blood gathered beneath his limp arm.

The notorious Somali paramilitary warlord who goes by the nom de guerre Indha Adde, or White Eyes, walks alongside trenches on the outskirts of Mogadishu’s Bakara Market once occupied by fighters from the Shabab, the Islamic militant group that has pledged allegiance to Al Qaeda. In one of the trenches, the foot of a corpse pokes out from a makeshift grave consisting of some sand dumped loosely over the body. One of Indha Adde’s militiamen says the body is that of a foreigner who fought alongside the Shabab. “We bury their dead, and we also capture them alive,” says Indha Adde in a low, raspy voice. “We take care of them if they are Somali, but if we capture a foreigner we execute them so that others will see we have no mercy.”

On a remote island, a former airline executive and his wife are preparing for the world to end. Others are starting to join them.

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.

Many low-wage workers are confined to filthy bathrooms, can’t get breaks and even lose their jobs trying to pump.

The first living ex-pope in 600 years watches as the successor he enabled dismantles his legacy.

How $100 million in cuts created chaos in Florida’s mental hospitals.

How one man’s imagined discovery of a sex-trafficking camp in the Sonoran Desert gained life online — and in the real world.

An interview with Alan Stillman, who in 1965 founded T.G.I. Friday’s, the first singles bar in America.

One story of coming to America from the Soviet Union.

The son of an American anthropologist returns to the Amazon to reunite with his mother, an indigenous tribeswoman.