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

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.

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

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.

It’s the “City of the Big Automobile,” raw and beautiful at once.

From Stefani Joanne Germanotta to Lady Gaga: the self-invented, manufactured, accidental, totally on-purpose creation of the world’s biggest pop star.

The diary of a Scranton, PA National Guardsmen tasked with guarding the highest profile prisoner in U.S history: a surprisingly amiable Saddam Hussein.

The story of Nate Fleming—walk-on point guard at Oklahoma State, fan favorite, golden child—and the 2001 plane crash that took his life.

From the Greeks to George Lucas, 2,200 years of failure.

On the man who has turned the grunt work of packing into a social media phenomenon.

How two high school wrestling teammates ended up on opposites side of the law during Miami’s cocaine wars.

Mapping the global spread of antigay ideology.

Flashbacks from the life of Aaron Hernandez from the person who knew him best, his older brother Jonathan.

An Afghanistan love story.

How a 20-year-old from the land of fake news tricked Martina Navratilova, Serena Williams, and the BBC.

On photographer Garry Winogrand and the unedited archive of more than half a million exposures he left behind.

A love letter and the jacked up emotions of reality TV.

Most of the fish we eat die by asphyxiation. But there’s a better way, both for the fish and those who eat them.

A comprehensive history of the case against the Menendez brothers, built primarily on secret audio recording made by their self-promoting therapist.

How one man’s imagined discovery of a sex-trafficking camp in the Sonoran Desert gained life online — and in the real world.

The first magazine profile of the actor in more than 20 years.