Banned in Russia and cut by Condé Nast from the GQ website, this story (presented in full) details the intrigue behind the Moscow apartment bombings, blamed on Chechens, that allowed Putin to rapidly ascend to power.

Here’s what’s become of them.

A profile of Carrie Lam, Hong Kong’s chief executive.

When a spring breaker goes missing, a seasoned investigator uncovers devil worship and a sinister cult at the heart of the drug trade.

Life and death aboard the Zaandam cruise ship as it was denied a port by country after country.

The supply chains of the cocaine industry did not falter even during a worldwide shutdown.

An oral history of the day oil prices went below zero for the first time in trading history.

Earlier this month, while China's leaders were staging a grandiose celebration of their revolution's 40th birthday, thousands of somber Hong Kong residents gathered for a dreary commemoration of their own. Far from the fireworks display in Beijing, Hong Kongers huddled in a rainstorm near the bronze statue of Queen Victoria, singing patriotic songs and listening to mournful poems dedicated to those who died in Tiananmen Square.

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

On the anti-communist genocide known by the Indonesian Army as Operation Annihilation.

On the twilight of the Iranian Revolution.

Was the attack outside of the LeBaron compound really by a cartel?

An American mercenary, who did security for Trump rallies, attempts a amphibious coup along the Venezuelan border.

A trip to India for total silence.

The passengers of the Diamond Princess came for indulgence, relaxation and bottomless buffets. Then they found themselves trapped on a ship infected with a deadly virus.

The first epicenter is coming back to life, but not as anyone knew it.

From Kenya to Amsterdam to New Jersey, an industry collapses in a matter of weeks.

The weakest link in America’s national security may not be foreign technology but its own people. The story of the single mother who sold out to China.

Renée Bach went to Uganda to save children—but many in her care died. Was she responsible?

More migrants than ever are crossing the Colombia-Panama border to reach the U.S. Five days inside the Darién Gap, one of the most dangerous journeys in the world.

On water scarcity in Mexico City.

Jane de Oliveira set out to protect the world’s largest rain forest from the corporate interests that are burning it to the ground. Then the armed men showed up.

Forty-five days of avoiding the coronavirus.

What happens when immigrant-rights advocates reach a breaking point?