The true story of the first Thanksgiving.

The legacy of the Guatemelan adoption industry.

The mysterious death of Alfred Wright in the shadow of a town’s history of racial violence.

The barbaric brutalization of Abner Louima and the tragic fate of a handful of flawed Brooklyn cops.

More than 15% of Detroit’s adults have asthma, and 82% of black students go to schools in the most polluted parts of the city.

"I thought dying for your country was the worst thing that could happen to you, and I don't think it is. I think killing for your country can be a lot worse. Because that's the memory that haunts."

On February 25, 1969, Bob Kerrey led a raid into a Vietnamese peasant hamlet during which at least 13 unarmed women and children were killed.

A review of several books on Rupert Murdoch first criticizes the authors for not grasping the many sides of their subject, then offers a thesis of its own. He’s “not so much a man, or a cultural force, as a portrait of the modern world.”

On the grifter who made a living forging the signatures of American heroes.

The inside story of the Affordable Care Act.

One man’s stories from the early days of the NBA.

American history begs the question: Can immigrants possibly inherit the mythology of the U.S.?

A profile of Mitch Landrieu, the first white mayor of New Orleans in nearly 30 years–part of a larger post-Katrina trend in the city’s politics. “The elected leadership looks almost like a photo negative of the pre-Katrina government.”

How Rupert Murdoch’s empire of influence remade the world.

On the lives of the men who gang-raped a woman on a Delhi bus last year, the life of their victim, and the people left out of India’s growing prosperity.

On the occasion of Hamid Karzai’s visit to the White House, a fever dream tour of the Afghanistan war through the eyes of the leaders who gave birth to its narrative.

On the history, internal culture, and scandals of the consulting giant.

The plot to erode the key legislative gains of the civil rights era.

Inside the world of “Wooks,” the loner-craftsmen behind the coming marijuana-concentrate boom.

The crowdfunded phone of the future was a multimillion-dollar scam

The making of a lost generation:

According to the Unicef report, which measured 40 indicators of quality of life – including the strength of relationships with friends and family, educational achievements and personal aspirations, and exposure to drinking, drug taking and other risky behavior – British children have the most miserable upbringing in the developed world. American children come next, second from the bottom.

How Atlanta-born Davido, the son of a wealthy Nigerian businessman, hopes to break the international market with his brand of Nigerian pop.

An artifact from the height of the uproar:

Behind the tawdriest of headlines, there's a woman I wouldn't mind bringing home to mom.

An interview with cinematographer Harris Savides on the enduring appeal of the visual style of films shot in the 1970s.

A new strain of educational thought (and practice) involves embracing the technology of the moment - which means bringing video games into the classroom.

An opinion piece on the structural causes of unrest in Egypt; the business fraternity, globalization, and the fate of Egyptian women.