Last year, a hacker gave Glenn Greenwald a trove of damning messages between Brazil’s leaders. Some suspected the Russians. The truth was far less boring.

Adrian Hong says he leads a group of “freedom fighters” conducting a revolution. Has the U.S. already betrayed them?

For a few days in 1995, many Indians believed a religious idol had developed a lifelike ability to drink milk.

Christina Kim risked everything to escape North Korea’s entrenched gender violence. She almost didn’t make it.

On revisionist architecture.

Looking at the statues here, or anywhere, makes one wonder: Is abstraction simply the cardinal feature of any war where the loss is so much greater than whatever can be described as victory?

On Los Angeles’s 1985 declaration of “sanctuary status.”

Dozens of military contractors, most of them Black, have been jailed in the emirate — some on trumped-up drug charges. Why has the American government failed to help them?

In November 2019, James Le Mesurier, the British co-founder of the Syrian rescue group, fell to his death in Istanbul. What led an internationally celebrated humanitarian to take his own life?

A year ago, he was one of the Premier League’s highest-paid players. Now, after angering China and refusing a pay cut, he has simply vanished.

Partying in Kavos during the pandemic.

The history of civilian internment camps.

How a middle-class jock from a Texas border town became La Barbie, one of the most ruthless and feared cartel leaders in Mexico.

Nine days in Wuhan.

Shut out of the employment market in their 20s, hikkomori shut-ins continue to search for direction in middle age.

The bizarre story of what happened when Chinese crypto millionaire Justin Sun acquired BitTorrent.

In Gujarat, India, a special breed of camel is not constrained by land—but cannot escape the many forces of change.

With Deutsche Bank’s help, an oligarch’s buying spree trails ruin across the US heartland.

The F.B.I. tried to recruit an Iranian scientist as an informant. When he balked, the payback was brutal.

The Western student of international politics knows to nod approvingly when Lee’s name is mentioned. Frustrated by the sludge of partisan politics in his own country, he sees in Lee’s legacy a kind of exotic escape. If asked, he remarks sagely: Singapore is proof of what enlightened authoritarianism can achieve.

In the pandemic, “caremongering” has become a new term for an old—and joyous—practice

Gearing up for the fight against a new climate enemy.

Immigrant struggles in America forged a bond that became even tighter after my mother’s A.L.S. diagnosis. Then, as COVID-19 threatened, Chinese nationalists began calling us traitors to our country.

Filipino teachers, hired to fill historic shortages in the South and elsewhere, fight their exploitation by opportunistic recruiters.

Obinwanne Okeke was supposed to be a rags-to-riches Nigerian success story, was even featured on the cover of Forbes. Then the feds followed the money.