Inside one of the biggest antiquities-smuggling rings in history.

In search of the perfect lie detector test.

Lyndon Baines Johnson in retirement.

Brazil’s restless youth in the lead-up to the World Cup.

A report from Owsley County, Ky., the poorest county in America.

On hit-and-run deaths, and in particular, that of Tiara Nichelle Jackson on the Beltway.

How Korean immigrants in L.A. revolutionized fashion’s production cycle.

Driving cross-country in a chemical tanker.

How Craigslist dealers do business in New York City.

The Facebook COO on her generation’s failures and the continuing gender gap in American business and politics.

Today, we turn to you. You are the promise for a more equal world. You are our hope. I truly believe that only when we get real equality in our governments, in our businesses, in our companies and our universities, will we start to solve this generation’s central moral problem, which is gender equality.

On the rise of witness intimidation in Baltimore.

On the life of a small-town druggist in Colorado.

On the FBI’s program to infiltrate Muslim communities in America.

Thirty years after the murder in Abilene, the question remains unanswered.

On killing and eating small game in Seattle.

A jury recommends life in prison; the judged orders a death sentence.

Following the money and the opium in Afghanistan.

Bringing down a cocaine empire in 1980s rural Maine.

Guatemala discovers, in bat-guano spotted documents, the truth about its violent past.

Cleaning up after the fisherman at a remote lodge in Northern Ontario.

The events that led the writer to spend 60 days in jail.

The musicians of Mali find themselves in the middle of a civil war.

On the murder of a young Hasidic boy in Brooklyn.

The unlikely people who’ve turned to selling weed in the recession.

Looking for holes in the world’s nuclear security.