The Social Laboratory
On Singapore’s attempt to create a more harmonious society using mass surveillance and data analysis.
World
Dr. Matthew's Passion
A profile of a doctor fighting Ebola in Uganda.
Diary: Guantánamo
Accused of being part of a terror cell at age 12, Gitmo’s youngest prisoner recounts his life
In Ferry Deaths, a South Korean Tycoon’s Downfall
On the cult founder, business magnate, pseudonymous internationally shown artist and ferry owner Yoo Byung-eun, who was found dead in the brush amidst empty liquor bottles.
The Unforgotten
The people who go missing while crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, and the people who attempt to identify their remains.
"Then I Saw Them Everywhere. Children’s Belongings Were Everywhere.”
How the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 rippled around the world, from the battlefield of Ukraine to Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam to the White House.
The Explosive, Inside Story of How John Kerry Built an Israel-Palestine Peace Plan—and Watched It Crumble
“You Palestinians can never see the fucking big picture.”
Sana'a
A trip to the capital of Yemen.
A Deluded German and Three Dead Bodies
In the late 1960s, a German named Günther Hauck disappeared in Brazil. When he emerged, he was calling himself Tatunca Nara and claimed to be the chief of the Ugha Mongulala, an previously unknown Indian tribe. Since then he has lived in the Amazon, his legend growing. Jacques Cousteau hired him as a guide. An Indiana Jones movie was based on his stories. And three people who made pilgrimages to see him never came home.
The Hunt for Boko Haram
How divisions between Nigeria’s Muslim North and Christian South resulted in the birth of terror’s most ruthless movement.
The Organ Detective
A profile of anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes, who has spent her career uncovering a hidden global market in human flesh.
In NSA Net, Ordinary Web Users Eclipse Legal Targets
In the latest revelation from Edward Snowden, the U.S. government is shown to collect and retain massive amounts of data on nearly 900,000 people with the most minimal of connections to official NSA targets. The collected information tells our “stories of love and heartbreak, illicit sexual liaisons, mental-health crises, political and religious conversions, financial anxieties and disappointed hopes.”
Beyond Belief
A trip to Antarctica.
Sixty-Nine Days
How the Chilean miners survived.
The World Cup of Dirty Dreams
Behind the doors of Centaurus, Rio’s most infamous brothel.
After Karzai
A profile of Afghanistan’s outgoing president.
Stash Pad
How New York real estate became the new Swiss bank account.
An Investigation Into Xinjiang’s Growing Swarm of Great Gerbils
Tracking a rumored gerbil infestation through China’s bureaucracy.
The Torture Colony
A utopian German settlement in Chile had already turned darkly cultish by the time it became a secret torture site for enemies of the Pinochet regime.
Heil Hipster
Young neo-Nazis attempt to rebrand hate.
The Slumdog Millionaire Architect
How Hafeez Contractor is creating an alternate India in the sky, where professionsals are “insulated from the chaos that has long hamstrung their homeland.”
"I Have Sinned Against the Lord and Against You! Will You Forgive Me?"
Adriaan Vlok, a former apartheid leader, seeks redemption.
Heroes for Sale
A final visit with late boxer Teófilo Stevenson, who could have fought or even been Muhammad Ali had he not stayed in Cuba.
A Portrait of Europe’s White Working Class
What the neighborhood of Higher Blackley in Manchester says about “one of the least understood and most discriminated-against groups in society.”
Can General Linder’s Special Operations Forces Stop the Next Terrorist Threat?
How America is trying to fight terrorism in Africa without doing any of the actual fighting.
