Inside Baghdad's Brutal Battle Against ISIS
Even ISIS’s opponents are hard men who understand terror.
War
My ISIS Boyfriend
A French reporter went undercover as potential “caliphette” and recieved a marriage proposal from a senior ISIS commander.
The Lost Battalion
Searching for sanctuary with American war deserters.
How the Killing of a Trans Filipina Woman Ignited An International Incident
Justice isn’t so easy to come by when an American soldier stationed abroad is accused of murder.
Bad Lieutenant
A leading Guantanamo interrogator was once a Chicago police detective accused of police brutality.
Destroyed By the Espionage Act
You can have a PhD from Yale. You can be a rising star in the State Department. And you can still find yourself being investigated by the FBI for espionage.
Send in the Weathermen
Inside the world of special operations weather technicians, “the Department of Defense’s only commando forecasters.”
Spy in the Machine
NSA-grade spyware is up for sale, and the world’s worst dictatorships are buying.
The Whole Haystack
The N.S.A. claims it needs access to all our phone records. But is that the best way to catch a terrorist?
To Live and Die in Gitmo
What one sergeant says he saw before the alleged suicides of three detainees.
Into Afghanistan’s Taliban Valley
Untouched by Western journalists except in the presence of American troops, Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley was once the most violent part of the Afghan War.
The Search for Petr Khokhlov
A Russian soldier vanishes in Ukraine.
The Tragedy of the American Military
The United States fights wars it can’t win using soldiers it doesn’t know.
A Road Trip Across America
Reporting on the “American Way of Life,” two years after the end of World War II.
Inside Monopoly's Secret War Against the Third Reich
Christopher Clayton Hutton hatched a plan to deliver Monopoly boards to British prisoners of war. The games were advertised as a diversion, but really they offered a way out.
The Making of a Narco State
Following the money and the opium in Afghanistan.
Isis: The Inside Story
An Islamic State senior commander reveals the terror group’s origins.
Why No One Remembers the Peacemakers
Why do we honor dead soldiers rather than the fighters who deserted and the activists who demanded peace?
In and Out of Time in Iraq
An essay on PTSD.
Iraq: The New War
A 2003 essay that foreshadows the emergence of the Islamic State a decade later – an insurgency incited by American policy in Iraq during the early days of the war.
The Jihad Cult: Why Young Germans Are Answering Call to Holy War
More than 500 Germans, including a former rapper named Deso Dogg, have joined ISIS in Syria.
Losing the War
An essay, originally published over two issues, on how and why we forget war.
The 'Caliphate's' Colonies: Islamic State's Gradual Expansion into North Africa
“The Jihad route leads from Tunisia via Tripoli into Turkey and on to Syria. Thousands have followed the path into Syria, and only a few have returned.”
Firestone and the Warlord
How a major American company helped bring Charles Taylor to power in Liberia.
Hell Is Other People
A report from the Central African Republic, where "acts of extraordinary cruelty have become commonplace."
