How a group of men with nicknames like “Emperor” and “Spear Carrier” tipped the balance in South Sudan’s fight for independence.

Greg Ousley killed his parents and has been locked up for nineteen years.

Is that enough?

Hipsters vs. Hasids in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. A skirmish over a bike lane becomes a battle for a neighborhood.

How the daily e-mail from Mike Allen, Politico’s star reporter, has become a morning ritual for Washington’s elite.

The Great Recession meant great things for Nick Popovich, who gets paid by banks to take planes back from hard-up millionaires.

Brian Hickey, a journalist who was induced into a coma after being left for dead following a hit and run accident, reports the story of his recovery.

The bloody, often surreal, fight for Kosovo’s independence was led by a man moonlighting as a roofer in Switzerland.

A profile of Jon Stewart, who’s now run The Daily Show for more than a decade.

What happened next for Harry Whittington, the guy Cheney shot in the face? Not an apology.

A tech neophyte looks for answers in Silicon Valley, “the last place in America where people are this optimistic.”

On the late comedian Bill Hicks, just as a performance on Letterman is deemed unfit for network TV.

The elite Iraqi “Golden Division” was trained by the US to hunt terrorists. But now they’re locked in a brutal street battle for control of Mosul.

How Edith Windsor fell in love, got married, and won a landmark case for gay marriage.

In his work with the White House, is Mohammed bin Salman driving out extremism, or merely seizing power for himself?

He has been president for more than a year—so why is he still holding rallies?

Elder abuse, secret recordings, shady memorabilia dealings and the sinister battle for the estate of 95-year-old Marvel legend Stan Lee.

In the midst of a national crisis, mothers addicted to drugs struggle to get off them — for their babies’ sake, and their own.

The Pentagon’s failed campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan left a generation of soldiers with little to fight for but one another.

“It takes this huge amount of will and energy for anything to happen to you.”

A group of Latina women across the country have been working in secret, turning their homes into shelters for abused immigrant women.

What happened next for the Barden family.

For decades, Jeffrey Lendrum went to extreme lengths to snatch falcon eggs from their nests and sell them to the highest bidder. Then he got caught.

Tom Justice was once a cyclist chasing Olympic gold. Then he began using his bike for a much different purpose: robbing banks.

How proposals to change recommendations and curb conspiracies were sacrificed for engagement.