Humpbacks are some of the most watched whales in the world, and yet so much of their lives remains a mystery.

For the first time, data scientists have modeled how climate refugees might move across international borders. This is what they found.

The world is consumed by violent fights and hostile disagreements. Sarah Schulman sees a way out of them.

In their depictions of domination, the artist’s works, full of world-building and philosophy, do more than flip the script.

In the pandemic, “caremongering” has become a new term for an old—and joyous—practice

With Deutsche Bank’s help, an oligarch’s buying spree trails ruin across the US heartland.

Adrian Hong says he leads a group of “freedom fighters” conducting a revolution. Has the U.S. already betrayed them?

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.

In Kabul, one of the world’s most dangerous cities, one man works to help Afghan migrants return to a place they never knew.

Pictet, a 215-year-old firm rooted firmly in the past, finds tension adapting to the modern world.

The theft of a deeply personal painting by René Magritte from a Belgian museum was a national tragedy. Now, an investigation points to a tragedy greater still.

The CIA plan to grab or kill Julian Assange before a theoretical escape to Moscow.

Mardi Fuller grew up in a world of swimming lessons and swim teams because of a mysterious death that haunted her family’s past.

Mikhail Kalashnikov’s brainchild, Avtomat Kalashnikovais aka the AK-47, is the most stockpiled firearm in the world and has altered the last century like no other product. C.J. Chivers, author of The Gun, discusses.

Over the last several years, millions of dollars worth of antique rhino horns have been stolen form collections around the world. The only thing more unusual than the crimes is the theory about who is responsible: A handful of families from rural Ireland known as the Rathkeale Rovers.

A trip to Turkey for a soccer game between bitter rivals and its accompanying madness.

Policing the world of experimental research in the age of TED talks and Freakonomics.

The life and mysterious death of dissident Bulgarian writer and radio journalist Georgi Markov.

The fall of PCCare247, an Indian company in the business of selling fixes to problems that didn’t exist.

The fight over an alleged Israeli war crime.

Adriaan Vlok, a former apartheid leader, seeks redemption.

A 15-year-old Russian has a shorter life expectancy than a peer in Bangladesh, Cambodia, or Yemen.

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

A profile of Malala Yousafzai, the young activist from Pakistan who was just awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.