"I thought dying for your country was the worst thing that could happen to you, and I don't think it is. I think killing for your country can be a lot worse. Because that's the memory that haunts."

On February 25, 1969, Bob Kerrey led a raid into a Vietnamese peasant hamlet during which at least 13 unarmed women and children were killed.

“If you could put your own crew together and rob the biggest drug dealer you know, who would that drug dealer be?”

“The grand jury witness who testified that she saw Michael Brown pummel a cop before charging at him ‘like a football player, head down,’ is a troubled, bipolar Missouri woman with a criminal past who has a history of making racist remarks and once insinuated herself into another high-profile St. Louis criminal case with claims that police eventually dismissed as a ‘complete fabrication.’”

Manufacturers fought to get implants back on the market. Regulators gave in. Now thousands of patients are paying the price.

The struggle to build a wine industry in rural China.

A doctor reveals widespread organ harvesting of prisoners in China.

An impossible hike in Western China.

The NFL attempts to set up a beachhead in China.

On the religious revival underway in China.

Booze, sex, and the dark art of dealmaking in China.

On former CIA agent John T. Downey, who spent more than 20 years in China as the longest held American captive of war.

On former Knicks savior Stephon Marbury and his post-NBA life playing in China.

China is forcing hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other minorities into hard, manual labour in the vast cotton fields of its western region of Xinjiang.

America, China, and the case for coal as a vital weapon in the war against climate change.

A profile of Rupert Murdoch from 1995, as he fought monopoly charges in the U.S. and U.K. and prepared to expand his empire into China.

Murdoch is a pirate; he will cunningly circumvent rules, and sometimes principles, to get his way, as his recent adventures in China demonstrate.

How a corporate network engineer became one of Aleppo’s most prolific weapons manufacturers.

The rise of an expensive, experimental stem-cell treatment in China and the medical tourism it attracts.

In the shallow reefs of Ayungin Shoal sits a rusted-out ship manned by eight Filipino soldiers whole sole purpose is to keep China in check.

The weakest link in America’s national security may not be foreign technology but its own people. The story of the single mother who sold out to China.

Lunch with recycling tycoon Chen Guangbiao, the self-described “Most Influential Person of China,” to discuss his interest in buying The New York Times.

Team America voyages to Jordan’s King Abdullah II Special Operations Training Center to compete against top-seeded China and other squads in challenges based on counter-terrorism scenarios.

Arriving in China at 23, Sidney Rittenberg spent 35 years as a “friend, confidante, translator, and journalist” for the Communist Party’s top leaders. In this interview, he recalls both his friendship with Chairman Mao and the 16 years he spent in solitary confinement.

How the case of a poisoned college student in China, cold for 18 years, has suddenly turned into “what may be the largest amateur online manhunt in history.”

How the ‘princeling’ descendants of Mao’s ‘Eight Immortals’consolidated unimaginable power and wealth in the New China.