A trip to Kingston, Jamaica to track down Bunny Wailer, a reggae legend now living “in his own private Zion.”

How an apartheid-era psychiatrist went from torturing gay soldiers in South Africa to sexually abusing patients in Canada.

Overcrowding in prisons leads to doubling up inmates in solitary confinement, regardless of their homicidal intentions or mental health.

Tracing the path of one of the world’s most in-demand minerals from deadly mines in Congo to your phone.

In 1986, two lovebirds busted out of a coed prison in a hijacked helicopter. They’ve been trying to escape ever since.

What did $3M paid to a US consulting firm get Qaddafi? A glowing profile in The New Republic, written by a Harvard professor, who travelled to Tripoli to interview him. On the consulting company’s dime. Which he failed to disclose.

He decided to bury a box of treasure in the desert. Why?

A brazen land grab in Zimbabwe and why it’s getting harder to stop multinational corporations.

Lenny Pozner used to believe in conspiracy theories. Until his son’s death became one.

How it feels to lose $30,000 in Bitcoin.

How cops use arcane pedestrian laws to racially profile people in Jacksonville, Florida.

What it means to be beautiful in the most populous country on earth.

"I was a member of a fraternity that asked pledges, in order to become a brother, to: swim in a kiddie pool of vomit, urine, fecal matter, semen and rotten food products; eat omelets made of vomit; chug cups of vinegar, which in one case caused a pledge to vomit blood; drink beer poured down fellow pledges' ass cracks... among other abuses."

The 20 soldiers in Second Platoon try in vain to hold down a strategic outpost in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley, “among the deadliest pieces of terrain in the world for U.S. forces.”

An essay drawn from the introduction of Davidson’s iconic book Subway, first published in 1986:

To prepare myself for the subway, I started a crash diet, a military fitness exercise program, and early every morning I jogged in the park. I knew I would need to train like an athlete to be physically able to carry my heavy camera equipment around in the subway for hours every day. Also, I thought that if anything was going to happen to me down there I wanted to be in good shape, or at least to believe that I was. Each morning I carefully packed my cameras, lenses, strobe light, filters, and accessories in a small, canvas camera bag. In my green safari jacket with its large pockets, I placed my police and subway passes, a few rolls of film, a subway map, a notebook, and a small, white, gold-trimmed wedding album containing pictures of people I’d already photographed in the subway. In my pants pocket I carried quarters for the people in the subway asking for money, change for the phone, and several tokens. I also carried a key case with additional identification and a few dollars tucked inside, a whistle, and a small Swiss Army knife that gave me a little added confidence. I had a clean handkerchief and a few Band-Aids in case I found myself bleeding.

In 2008, Hana Williams left an Ethiopian orphanage to join a large, Christian fundamentalist family in America. Three years later she was dead.

In the early 1960s, Middle Eastern guys in Brooklyn introduced America to Arabic rock-and-roll.

Riots in Athens, the shadowy Vatopaidi monastery, and a quarter million dollars in debt for every citizen. Welcome to Greece.

Joni Ernst’s reelection campaign may be an object lesson in what it takes for a woman to win in today’s GOP.

A profile of Nora Sandigo, guardian to hundreds of kids born in America to illegal immigrants.

A couple tries to give away their house in Flint, Michigan – but no one wants to live there anymore.

A 30-year-old funeral director in LA wants to help the living get closer to death.

Mel and Norma Gabler of Longview, Texas, want to tell your children what to learn in school.

A white gangster immerses himself in Asian culture to lead a Chinatown gang. He even learns to pour tea correctly.

In 1992, a magazine story introduced the world to the photographs of Sally Mann. Here, she responds to the firestorm that article produced.