In northern Nigeria, radical Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram is facing a vigilante backlash from armed teenagers with nothing to lose.

How the Third Reich was founded on a conspiracy theory.

The decade-long journey of a novel–Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding–through the unpredictable world of book publishing.

A profile of anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes, who has spent her career uncovering a hidden global market in human flesh.

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

How to understand the real-world value of things that are worth nothing and everything at once.

On the intrigue surrounding Dr. Zhivago’s publication.

Sarah Marquis’s very long hike.

A 21-year-old UCLA math major leaves his $9,000-a-month internship to fight with the rebels in Libya.

On the actors who unwittingly starred in The Innocence of Muslims.

A Liberian road trip with the creator of MTV, Ralph Reed and a reformed cannibal named General Butt Naked.

The impact of the oil and gas booms taking place all over the world, and our future on fossil fuels.

A generation that has seen inestimable violence comes of age in Juarez.

On Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet, its uncanny knack for reflecting changes in Russian politics and culture, and the recent acid attack on its artistic director.

How Georgia halted its drug epidemic, but not its addicts–and what the U.S. might learn from their efforts.

In a Turkish hotel, veterans of the Libyan Revolution meet with their fractured Syrian counterparts to transfer know-how and heavy weaponry.

Reporting on drug-resistant tuberculosis across Papua New Guinea – and then contracting the disease.

On Japan’s Hokkaido, an island the size of Ireland, and its rebel leader of lore, Shakushain.

How a secretive Israel billionaire seized control of an untapped iron ore deposit beneath one of Africa’s poorest countries.

A profile of lawyer Jacques Vergès, who died yesterday after decades spent defending war criminals, terrorists and dictators.

What the rapidly changing world of teenage hook-up culture means for young women.

The rise of the Night Wolves, a Kremlin-backed biker gang, and what it says about the Russian political condition.

The bumpy ride from St. Petersburg and Moscow, through a Russia slipping back into the 19th century.

What did soccer have to do with two brutal murders after a pickup game?

On the assassination of a half-Palestinian, half-Jewish cultural revolutionary.