How Georgia halted its drug epidemic, but not its addicts–and what the U.S. might learn from their efforts.

Why the integration of a South African university didn’t last.

An investigation into shootings by U.S. Border Agents that have killed six Mexicans on Mexican soil over the past five years.

Inside the White House debate over Syria.

In 2011, just before Christmas, a tiny Spanish town won 120 million Euros in the lottery. A trip to the new Sodeto.

The NFL attempts to set up a beachhead in China.

On the holy city of Canudos, and other attempts at better living “by the dispossessed and marginalized the world over.”

Kosovo’s leaders have been accused of grotesque war crimes. But can anyone prove it?

A profile of Alexey Navalny, a Russian anti-corruption crusader.

On dissident filmmakers in Syria.

A portrait of a new nation.

The origin story of the C.I.A.’s covert drone war, which began with the 2004 killing of a Pashtun militant, the result of a secret deal for access to Pakistani airspace.

A look at the Mexican drug wars from the point of view of a narco’s mistress in Juárez.

Covering an election in Peru’s largest prison.

On the segregation of Slovakia’s Gypsies.

A trip to the French island of Réunion to report on a bloody battle between surfers and sharks.

A war travelogue through Mali alongside French troops as a “place just like Afghanistan” descends into chaos.

The King of Rwanda is 76 years old, 7 feet 2 inches tall, and lives on public assistance in a small apartment in Virginia.

How a Mossad agent’s desperate bid to jumpstart his career led to the exposure of two top Hezbollah plants.

Tracking down a Congolese war criminal.

The author tells the story of his kidnapping by militants in Syria.

In February, Jerusalem’s FC Beitar, the only soccer team in the Israeli Premier League to have never signed an Arab player, signed two Chechnyan Muslims, sparking national controversy and pitting the organization against their ultras fan club La Familia.

A profile of Gina Rinehart, the richest person in Australia.

On Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet, its uncanny knack for reflecting changes in Russian politics and culture, and the recent acid attack on its artistic director.

On the legal and practical details of the drone strikes that killed New Mexico-born Anwar al-Awlaki and later, accidentally, his sixteen-year-old Colorado-born son.