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.

Fighting to the finish in the most dangerous region of Afghanistan.

In court and visiting prison with the parents of young Russian Nationalists who’ve killed.

Inside the attack on the U.S. embassy in Kabul.

On office chairs.

In the 1950s and '60s, the distinctions between rank found blunt expression in chair design, naming and price point; Knoll, for example, produced "Executive," "Advanced Management," and "Basic Operational" chairs in the late 1970s. Recall the archetypal scenes where the boss, back to the door, protected by an exaggerated, double-spine headrest, slowly swivels around to meet the eyes of his waiting subordinate, impotent in a stationary four-legger.

On the ground with U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

In mountainous Wenzhou “the emperor is far away” and the freest of markets reign.

What one woman spends in a year.

What’s really happening in Kyrgyzstan.