On the plight of the baobab tree.

On the cutthroat dealings of the porta-potty business.

John Singleton at the release of Boyz n the Hood.

A profile of the greatest checkers player of all time.

A ragtag band of pirate-Jihadists grab Americans from a diving resort in the Phillipines and lead them on an odyssey through the jungles of an archipelago with the competing interests of the Phillipines’ Navy and Army, the U.S. Military, and the C.I.A. thwarting their rescue.

Browsing the stacks with The Washington Post’s Michael Dirda.

A young reporter heads to Colombia to report on the conflict between FARC and the paramilitaries. He meets a girl on the bus. After they begin a relationship, she reveals that that she is part of a death squad.

Fifty years ago, The Last Picture Show changed the way the world saw small-town Texas and, in turn, the way the small town saw itself

John Georgelas was a military brat and drug enthusiast from Texas. Now he’s a prominent figure within the Islamic State.

The director on Obama, the state of black cinema, the Knicks, the Nets, the tragedy of public education in America, gentrified New York and why he lives on the Upper East Side.

A drone sighting caused the airport to close for two days in 2018, but despite a lengthy police investigation, no culprit was ever found. So what exactly did people see in the sky?

On Colombia’s “macabre alliance”:

In February 2003, the mayor of a small town on Colombia’s Caribbean coast stood up at a nationally televised meeting with then President Álvaro Uribe and announced his own murder.

Black women have been telling the truth about America for a long time. As a Black woman in journalism, my obligation is no less than that.

The Charleston-based evangelicals had much in common: guns, God, Trump. What went wrong, only one of them could say.

For more than a decade, the employees of a Washington think tank were traumatized by an unlikely harasser: a career Foreign Service officer. In hundreds of emails and voicemails, he called them “Arab American terrorist murderers” and ranted about how they should be cleansed. Yet there was almost nothing they could do.

“Charlize Theron is anxious. Not greatly anxious, not distraught, but still. Anxious.”

Michelito Lagrevere is a 12-year-old Mexican matador sensation.

“Any North Korean knows that escaping their nation is nearly impossible.”

On body horror, ‘Attack of the 50 Foot Woman,’ and the growing pains of being the tall girl.

How the bulk of the cocaine entering the U.S. ends up cut with a cattle dewormer.

Creating, and then attempting to dismantle, a fake persona based on a man who died in 1984.

A survey of sex on a Saturday night in New York City.

Over a million people are buried in a potter’s field on Hart Island. Here are some of their stories.

A profile of Broadway producer Jeffrey Seller, whose show makes more than $500,000 in profit every week.

Far outside of Juarez, villagers in rural areas are trapped without supplies or protection as rival cartels attempt to starve each other out of ranch hideouts. A heavily armed convoy attempts to deliver pensions behind siege lines.