Learning Arabic in Cairo after the Arab Spring.

A dispatch from Anthony Scaramucci’s SALT Conference.

On the life at sea of Henk De Velde, who has circumnavigated the globe six times.

A muddy float trip down the Upper Missouri.

The greatest writers of the nineteenth century were drawn to the North Pole. What did they hope to find there?

How life on four wheels became a brand.

Solo hiking the Appalachian trail as a black woman.

On water in the West, climate change, and how the birth of modern environmentalism lies at the bottom of Lake Powell.

Visiting a gargantuan shrine to democracy in 2017.

On the outsized pleasures of the very small.

Filipinos make up nearly a third of all cruise ship workers. It’s a good job. Until it isn’t.

A trip to Râmnicu Vâlcea, a town of 120,000 where the primary (and lucrative) industry is Internet scams.

Looking for answers in India after a seeker disappears and his guide commits suicide.

Five cars (all bought with $3,000 or less) containing 13 men (some in costume) race from New York City to California.

How a minimally trained, isolated man named Srinivasa Ramanujan figured out some of mathematics’ deepest theoretical problems using little more than an out-of-date elementary school textbook.

An unlikely duo from Boston treks to Bolivia, hoping to solve a 30-year-old aviation mystery.

On culture and the driverless car.

The story of an 86-year-old Norwegian man who tired to circumnavigate the globe, solo, in an engineless sailboat he built himself.

How a pair of HGTV stars are trying to renovate the reputation of Waco, Texas.

A harrowing journey through Alaskan waters in an ancient tugboat.

On the Italian island Lampedusa— “politically Europe, but geographically Africa”—as a wave of African immigrants is due to arrive from Libya by boat, ruining the tourist season.

A bus tour through Israel with a conservative radio host and 450 of his biggest fans.

A day and a night in 1960s Greenwich Village.

A writer who went astray takes a road trip through the ruins of the American West.

Thirteen years ago, Chris Velten disappeared while retracing the travels of explorer Mungo Park in Africa. He hadn’t been heard from at all — until he sent a friend request.