How a poet and an architect rescued a nation’s riches.

Writing a “stunt memoir” in the waterpark capital of the world.

In Argentina, where the fútbol underworld controls everything from t-shirt vending to murder, and “rowdy gangs” have turned the stadium into a battleground.

An inquiry into the assassination of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister.

The author travels to Dubai; Arab children see snow for the first time, which is made by a Kenyan.

How the United States came to spend more on defense than all the other nations of the world combined.

In the highlands of Papua New Guinea, admist a mining boom, the public torture and killing of women accused of sorcery has returned.

An oral history of the 2003 World Series of Poker, as poker went mainstream in America and online players invaded the competition.

A profile of Dennis Rodman today.

The saga of Naji Mansour.

The people who go missing while crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, and the people who attempt to identify their remains.

Accused of being part of a terror cell at age 12, Gitmo’s youngest prisoner recounts his life

Barack Obama on Africa, Putin and the gap between what CEOs tell him over lunch and what they tell their lobbyists.

What U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul has seen in Russia since he arrived two and a half years ago.

On PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, and the experience of covering AIDS in Africa.

On the kids who are spiritual leaders before the age of ten.

The “insane playfulness, deliberate infantilism, nutty haikus, naked stripteases, free-form chants and literary war dances of the beats” and their leader.

A New York gossip reporter makes her way in the wilds of European bureaucracy.

European antitrust regulators just won’t leave Google alone.

On the underground economy of full-service Southern California apartment complexes marketed to Chinese birth-tourists.

Who was Ashraf Marwan working for when he fell to his death from the balcony of a London flat?

Inside the paranoid world of Nike headquarters, where people are worried that Adidas might finally be capable of taking over the sneaker industry.

Edward Luttwak is a military strategist, a classical scholar, a cattle rancher, and an adviser to presidents, prime ministers, and the Dalai Lama.

The final days of the last Navy SEAL to die in Afghanistan.

The surreal afterlife of the once-ascendant Dubai, where “the legacy of oil has made everything worthless.”