An investigation into violence against Mexican citizens by the U.S. Border Patrol.

On the future of Iraq.

Investigating the burning of ancient books by rebels in Timbuktu.

An execution in war-torn Cuba.

A season with the American Football League of China.

Yasiel Puig’s journey to the Dodgers.

The story of a massacre in El Salvador.

Two men, separated by more than 150 years, discover the folly of attempting Western-style capitalism in Micronesia.

Inside Harun Yahya, which promotes a “sexed-up Disney version of Islam,” publishes a 800-page creationist atlas, runs a surreal TV station, and has films it members in orgies that often include high-ranking politicians.

The author relives her Romanian youth and the imprisonment of her father through the Securitate files kept on her family.

An investigation into the ill-fated text messaging platform ZunZuneo.

Over the last several years, millions of dollars worth of antique rhino horns have been stolen form collections around the world. The only thing more unusual than the crimes is the theory about who is responsible: A handful of families from rural Ireland known as the Rathkeale Rovers.

Embedded with G4S, the world’s largest private army.

On children accused of sorcery in Congo.

"For 20 beautiful years, my homeland was open and (kind of) free. Now, I fear, it’s closing back up."

Previously: Keith Gessen on the Longform Podcast.

Searching for the mysterious tree kangaroo in one of the most remote places on Earth.

On the burrneshas of Albania.

A surprising trip into the propaganda machine.

The battle for Rio de Janeiro’s iconic Cristo Redentor statue.

On the rise of Indian Posse, the largest of Canada’s native gangs, and the fall of its leader.

How a man of little education and little means invented a simple machine that changed the lives of women in rural India.

An essay on BR Ambedkar, Mahatma Gandhi and the battle against caste in India.

When its informant’s cover was blown, German intelligence destroyed his files. Did his handlers fail to pick up a violent cell that would eventually murder nine immigrants and a cop in order to preserve their asset?

On the dueling propagandists of Kiev and Moscow.

The complicated process of ghostwriting Julian Assange’s autobiography.