On Enrique of Malacca, “the closest thing there is to a hero in the story of Ferdinand Magellan’s horribly botched attempt to circumnavigate the world.”

Covering an election in Peru’s largest prison.

In North Georgia, two men feud over a quarter-mile property line.

What a state can teach us about a nation.

How Saudi Arabia makes dissidents disappear.

Rio de Janeiro drug gangs are embracing evangelical Christianity.

Who is the rightful inventor of the blockbuster swimsuit known as the Kiini?

For decades, “trimmigrants” have flooded California’s Emerald Triangle during harvest season in search of highly paid seasonal work. In the isolation of the dense forest, sexual assault is commonplace and rarely investigated.

He is one of the most powerful people in media and has become a prominent voice in the #MeToo movement. Now six women accuse Moonves of harassment and intimidation, and dozens more describe abuse at his company.

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

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.

How a tiny protest at the University of Nebraska turned into a proxy war for the future of campus politics.

“The conditions in America today do not much resemble those of 1968. In fact, the best analogue to the current moment is the first and most consequential such awakening—in 1868.”

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 Dickensian profession that can still pay upwards of $650,000 per year.

If you are an enemy of Putin, there’s one city where intrigue and assassins are bound to follow you.

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

A mysterious outbreak. Hundreds of stricken schoolgirls. Was it an illness, or was something darker to blame?

Peggy Jo Tallas spent most of her adult life doing two things: taking care of her ailing mother and robbing bank after bank dressed as a pudgy, bearded cowboy.

A fragile relationship teeters during a family vacation.

Looking for answers while camping with an abusive father.

From Word to smartphones.

We know we need it, but we don’t know why.