A 12,000-word profile of recently departed Brazilian President Luiz Inácio da Silva, the “most successful politician of his time.”

How Lalit Modi built a billion-dollar cricket empire—only to be exiled from his sport and homeland.

Inside the complicated world of running The New York Times.

A report from the Central African Republic, where "acts of extraordinary cruelty have become commonplace."

On the labor conditions behind branches of NYU, the Louvre, and the Guggenheim in Abu Dhabi.

Tracing the steps of migrants from the Middle East and Africa to the Kent countryside.

Reporting on the “American Way of Life,” two years after the end of World War II.

An army of Western luxury-lifestyle purveyors flock to China to teach the country’s new billionaires how to act rich.

Reconstructing the investigation into Rafik Hariri’s assassination, for which five men stand trial in absentia.

USB sticks bearing digital video are the new radio.

The controversial owner of the Dallas World Aquarium once nearly caused a riot over pygmy sloths.

In 1992, a magazine story introduced the world to the photographs of Sally Mann. Here, she responds to the firestorm that article produced.

The ramifications of a U.S. company’s tourism operation on former Maasai land.

Alberto Salazar is one of the most celebrated running coaches in the world. Is he also a cheater?

On stolen bicycles, “a solvent in America’s underground economy, a currency in the world of drug addicts and petty thieves.”

On Astana, the grandiose new capital that Kazakhstan built on the site of a remote Tsarist fort, and its striving young inhabitants.

Sam Childers, a Pennsylvania-based evangelical preacher, biker, and former drug addict, has devoted his life to catching crazed African warlord Joseph Kony.

How KFC brought fried chicken to China and Africa as U.S. sales slumped.

Al-Jazeera English dominated the international coverage of the 2008-2009 Gaza war. And now it’s poised to invade North America.

A year after dozens died protesting his election and hundreds more were imprisoned, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad grants a rare interview to an American journalist.

An American, born into privilege, became a bootleg DVD kingpin in Shanghai and then, in an unprecedented development, landed in Chinese prison.

An interview with William Gibson on the “dark, dark world of marketing, advertising, and trend forecasting.”

A profile of Anas Aremeyaw, an investigative journalist in Ghana who’s willing to do anything–and pose as anyone–to get the story.

Nineteenth century Muslim-Christian hero Abd el-Kader, the “Algerian George Washington.”

Searching for (and easily finding) Mark Augustus Landis, the man behind the “longest, strangest forgery spree the American art world has known.”