Edward Luttwak is a military strategist, a classical scholar, a cattle rancher, and an adviser to presidents, prime ministers, and the Dalai Lama.

A profile of new Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau.

The DEA warns that drugs are funding terror. But is the agency stopping threats or staging them?

Sarajevo, Chicago, and the memory of cities old and new.

What America owes those it takes in.

The ups and downs of being an accidental viral sensation.

The musicians of Mali find themselves in the middle of a civil war.

They were cousins who grow up in Raqqa amidst parties, beaches, even bikinis. They married ISIS fighters to protect their families, then became morality policers.

How a tiny island 5,000 miles from the U.S. mainland has produced so many NFL players.

Inside a movement.

On the response to the Paris attacks.

Bomb makers—including ISIS—have been on a quest to obtain red mercury, a weapon reputed to be powerful enough to “create the city-flattening blast of a nuclear bomb.” They haven’t found it yet. That might be because it doesn’t exist.

In a remote corner of Romania, neighbors kill each other over tiny strips of land.

Displaced from the Marshall Islands, residents build a new life in Oklahoma.

The story of Jeffrey Fowle, an Ohio man who tried to smuggle a Bible into North Korea.

How a tattooed video store clerk with a history of drinking and drug use ended up at an Islamic self-help class leading to the birth of ISIS.

What happens when an impoverished island nation enters into a deal to sell its own citizenship in bulk.

Putin's daughter Katerina has been attending college under the surname Tikhonova and is one of the top "acrobatic rock'n'roll dance" competitors in the world.

She is the also the rumored spouse of the son of one of Russia's richest bankers. While Putin reported only $119,000 on last year's tax return, his daughter's fortune could now stretch into the billions.

How Raj Rajaratnam and a McKinsey chairman made millions off a maid.

Neale McShane’s jurisdiction in the Australian Outback is roughly the size of the United Kingdom. He patrols it alone.

How a Guatemalan cook ended up the master of okonomiyaki.

The daily life and dwindling hopes of a 12-year-old Syrian refugee.

Five Vietnamese-American journalists were killed on American soil between 1981 and 1990. The prime suspects? Members of the National United Front for the Liberation of Vietnam, a group of former military commanders from South Vietnam.

Life as a crime reporter in one of the most violent places in the world.