A generation that has seen inestimable violence comes of age in Juarez.

The fight for South Africa’s future.

A world-renowned physicist’s miscalculation.

A profile of Hugo Chávez.

A history of how Tuareg separatists, jihadists seeking a “desert caliphate,” cigarette smugglers, and narcotraffickers have turned Northern Mali into “the globe’s most significant terrorist threat.”

A Liberian road trip with the creator of MTV, Ralph Reed and a reformed cannibal named General Butt Naked.

The diarist and photographer Peter Beard, known both for his series documenting a mass elephant starvation and for discovering the supermodel Iman on a Nairobi street, reflects on his life of “drugs, debt, and beautiful women” while recovering from being trampled by an elephant.

Before he died, Sun Myung Moon, cult father to massive Unification Church (known better as the Moonies), sent 14 Japanese “national messiahs” deep into the Paraguayan jungle to build an utopian “ideal city.” Thirteen years later, the author catches a trading boat down river in search of their hidden town.

Shanghai, in 1989 and 2013. Excerpted from A History of Future Cities.

Chasing the embers of hedonism in Morocco and Tunisia, as Salafi mobs and new regimes wash over the brothels, beaches, and nightclubs of what used to be the Arab world’s most liberal cities.

France, wealth and the saga of tax exile Gérard Depardieu.

Authorities say an American electronics engineer committed suicide after working on a project involving a Chinese telecom giant. His family believes he was murdered.

In the highlands of Papua New Guinea, admist a mining boom, the public torture and killing of women accused of sorcery has returned.

On the meeting of shaggy-haired American ping pong ace Glenn Cowan and Chinese master Zhuang Zedong (who died this week), and how their fleeting friendship thawed relations between the twon nations during the U.S. team’s historic 1971 tour of China.

In the wake of revolution, Libyans envision their future.

How Bert Schneider, a well-heeled Hollywood producer with a coke problem and a soft spot for radical politics, smuggled Huey Newton, the leader of the Black Panthers who was awaiting trial on a murder charge, into Cuba in 1974.

Almost five years ago, the author’s 13-year-old niece was murdered in her bedroom in suburban New Delhi. Since then, both of her parents have spent time in jail. Evidence, bungled by police, points to another possible killer. The trial has not yet begun.

Why Iran punished two leading AIDS doctors.

Afghanistan’s Kyrgyz nomads survive in one of Earth’s most remote places, a pocket of land 14,000 feet high where the currency is sheep, the dream is a road, and many will go an entire lifetime without ever seeing a tree.

The rise of Israel’s far right.

A day in the economic life of the Nairobi’s Kibera, the largest shanty-town in Africa.

The U.N.’s role in creating an epidemic in Haiti.

The author travels to Dubai; Arab children see snow for the first time, which is made by a Kenyan.

An investigation into the death of a Canadian soldier in Lebanon.

A trip to a grave in Damascus as shelling started in Homs.