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

The journey from a Sudanese refugee camp to an Atlanta police academy.

An exploited celebrity’s long journey home.

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

Why has the Palestinian cause failed to produce a Martin Luther King-like leader with a platform based on non-violence?

How an Italian thug looted MGM, brought Credit Lyonnais to its knees, and made the Pope cry.

A profile of Harold Camping, a Christian radio host who (falsely) predicted the end of the world.

Steven Donziger, an American lawyer, headed up a successful lawsuit against Chevron on behalf of Ecuadorans. Then the legal tables turned on him.

A reporter makes it his mission to track down all 42 members of a platoon after their service in Iraq.

Pavel Galitsky, 100 years old, blogger and Skyper, survivor of 15 years in Stalin’s Siberian Kolyma mines.

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

On a press junket in Ecuador, the author investigates the ethics of shopping.

A report from the trial of Ivan Demjanjuk—a.k.a. “The Last Nazi”—who died on March 17.

Scientists quarrel about the fate of animals living in the 1,600 square mile exclusion zone.

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

On Jenny Craig’s European expansion and how dieting differs in France and the States.

What is the sickness that leads inhabitants to sleep for days?

“Richard Williams raised her to go to war with the world. Post-tennis, she plans to live in it.”

How an apartheid-era psychiatrist went from torturing gay soldiers in South Africa to sexually abusing patients in Canada.

Afghans have long visited falbin to have their futures foretold. Fundamentalist Muslim clerics hope to stop that.

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

The disappearance of the Ghost Boat and its 243 passengers off the Libyan coast.

How a tiny island 5,000 miles from the U.S. mainland has produced so many NFL players.

The DEA warns that drugs are funding terror. But is the agency stopping threats or staging them?

Kelvin Villanueva had lived in America for 15 years. He had four kids. He had a job. Then he was stopped for a broken taillight.