Not education. Not income. Not even being an expert on racial disparities in health care.

At Facebook’s worst-performing content moderation site in North America, one contractor has died, and others say they fear for their lives.

Indigenous people and illegal miners are engaged in a fight that may help decide the future of the planet.

Stories of African Americans playing in a city that has struggled with racism

The author, on book tour when the pandemic set in, reflects on what could have been worse—and what could be better.

Observers have long warned of rising forced labor in Xinjiang. Satellite images show factories built just steps away from cell blocks.

A respected professor shot dead through the mansion window. A quaint New England town shaken to its core. One all-consuming obsession in Whip City.

In Virginia, paramilitarism gets a rebrand.

The joys—and absurdities—of finding oneself abandoned in a desolate landscape.

John Aldridge fell overboard in the middle of the night, 40 miles from shore, and the Coast Guard was looking in the wrong place. How did he survive?

In trailers just minutes from the Vegas Strip, Air Force pilots control predators over Iraq and Afghanistan. A case study in the marvels—and limits—of modern military technology.

The American students hopped across the border for a night of partying in Matamoros. One didn’t return and was found later in a shack with 14 other corpses.

“As a young reporter in Eastern Europe in 2001, I expected to witness the ‘end of history’ and the flowering of democracy. That was just one of the mistakes I made.”

Hua Qu is fighting to save her husband — one of at least seven U.S. captives in the Islamic Republic being used as pawns in a nearly 40-year secret history of hostage taking.

After Hurricane Maria, the number of women killed by their partners doubled. Survivors say the government’s misguided response has put more lives in danger.

Possible clues about Lincoln’s murder in the unlikeliest place.

The backstory of “The Duke in His Domain,” Truman Capote’s 1957 New Yorker profile of Marlon Brando.

In 1945, a fire tore through the home of George and Jennie Sodder. Four children escaped; five vanished.

A lesson in ethics.

A generation that has seen inestimable violence comes of age in Juarez.

A 27-year old reporter is kidnapped in Somalia and held hostage for over a year.

What the CIA really knew about Robert Levinson, a retired FBI agent who disappeared in 2007.

Embedded with a U.S. bomb squad in Baghdad.

The story that inspired The Hurt Locker.

On Norman Bel Geddes, pioneer of miniatures and maker of the “most iconic World’s Fair exhibit of all time.”

Testimonies about the Soviet war in Afghanistan, reported by the 2015 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature.