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

He outsold Elvis, signed one of the first pay-for-play contracts and befriended Martin Luther King Jr. A profile of Harry Belafonte.

Searching for the real reason why a bunch of kids partying at the empty home of an NFL player became a national story.

Sixty years later, a dishonorably discharged World War I veteran makes one final appeal. The 1980 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.

On the foreign workers of Dubai, who now make up 90 percent of the city’s population.

Stuck between the Taliban and the U.S. Military, Afghanistan’s farmers risk their lives both when they grow, and when they refuse to grow, fields of poppies.

One part rapist, one part con-man; the story of the seemingly unconvictable Hy Doan.

The story of dog-scent lineup innovator Keith Pikett and the not-so-scientific science behind forensics.

The author gets a security guard job at this aging textile factory. Part of the City by City project.

Five prostitutes disappear. Bodies turn up on a Long Island beach. On the women lost, and the families left behind.

After the United States demanded the extradition of a drug lord, a bloodletting ensued.

An interview with the former president about the upcoming election and American consensus.

On the Balkan musical genre Turbo-Folk, its ties to Serbian ultranationalism, and the strongman nightclub owner who brought it to Croatia.

A profile of the Bronx immigrant family on the other end of your Chinese takeout menu.

On spending six months on the southern coast of Argentina with the “Jane Goodall of penguins” and several hundred of her research subjects.

On Norman Bel Geddes, pioneer of miniatures and maker of the “most iconic World’s Fair exhibit of all time.”

The story of Trina Garnett, “one of approximately 470 prisoners in Pennsylvania serving life without parole for crimes they committed as teenagers.”

A man living in the Boston suburbs learns he could be one of the only survivors of a 1982 massacre in Guatemala.

His book panned in the New York Times after being misread by the critic, an author responds.

The author interviews her mother about life as a secretary at Playboy in 1960s New York City.

A town ruined by the chemical C8, an ingredient in the making of Teflon.

The photographs that Caesar, a Syrian military photographer, smuggled out of Assad’s death dungeons.

Famous people and the media have always needed each other. It has been a long, mutually beneficial (and mutually profitable) partnership. And it’s over.

The stubborn Senator from Vermont considers a run for the White House.