The shoot-first-and-ask-questions-later culture of the 101st Airborne Division, an execution of captured Iraqi prisoners, and how far up the chain of command responsibility lies.

The Federal Trade Commission has brought more than 60 cases related to data security against businesses. Only one has refused to settle.

An alleged rape and one woman’s futile quest for justice in modern China.

In the ’90s, a gynecologist named Gao Yaojie exposed an AIDS epidemic in rural China and the ensuing government cover-up. Forced to leave, she’s now 85 and living alone in New York.

...Prince hoped to hire Ukraine’s combat veterans into a private military company. Prince also wanted a big piece of Ukraine’s military-industrial complex, including factories that make engines for fighter jets and helicopters."

An essay on Alcor – “the Arizona cryonics company that has put the body of Boston Red Sox Hall of Famer Ted Williams in cryogenic suspension, in the hope he may one day rise again” – and the desire to live forever.

On the U.S. immigration prison-industrial complex.

A profile of New York Times Company CEO Mark Thompson.

Far outside of Juarez, villagers in rural areas are trapped without supplies or protection as rival cartels attempt to starve each other out of ranch hideouts. A heavily armed convoy attempts to deliver pensions behind siege lines.

The Green Bay Packers are a historical, cultural, and geographical anomaly, a publicly traded corporation in a league that doesn’t allow them, an immensely profitable company whose shareholders are forbidden by the corporate bylaws to receive a penny of that profit, a franchise that has flourished despite being in the smallest market in the NFL—with a population of 102,000, it would be small for a Triple A baseball franchise.

A profile of new Ticketmaster CEO Nathan Hubbard, who in another life was a touring musician and hated Ticketmaster just like everyone else.

A Denver businessman’s revolutionary green energy company turned out to be nothing but a Ponzi scheme built to fund a lifestyle of booze-soaked hotel orgies with flown-in prostitutes.

On the campaign trail in the most Republican congressional district in America.

The agonies of being overweight—or running a diet company—in a culture that likes to pretend it only cares about health, not size.

The U.N.’s role in creating an epidemic in Haiti.

Life as a Syrian refugee in Germany.

Kobe Bryant in twilight.

The Houthi coup in Yemen.

The search for Syrian war criminals in Europe.

On the political climate in Arizona.

In Goiânia, a city of 1.3 million in Brazil’s agricultural heartland, one in twenty homeless residents have been murdered in the last two years.

Last summer, in a small Wisconsin city, the country’s fiercest differences collided in the streets—and a teenager named Kyle Rittenhouse opened fire, shooting three people. In the aftermath, a disquieting question loomed: Were these among the first shots in a new kind of civil war?

Two men were sent to prison for killing a French tourist in Manhattan in 1987. Can they overturn their convictions?

The story of Southern Flight 242.

Sewage epidemiology has been embraced in other countries for decades, but not in America. Will Covid change that?