Until recently, it was possible to believe that there was a middle way, or to be in denial that a decisive moment would come. That’s no longer the case.

Maria Ressa, editor of a popular news site in the Philippines, has incurred President Duterte and his supporters’ wrath by investigating his extrajudicial killing campaign.

The epic battle to save the islands that inspired the theory of evolution.

After the Christchurch mosque shootings, New Zealand was stunned to silence. But only momentarily.

Some risky but practical proposals to harness a superpower that has clearly lost control.

An oil tanker was ordered to save more than 100 migrants floating in the middle of the Mediterranean. Europe didn’t want them. They couldn’t go back to Libya. How would they survive?

Firsthand accounts of the largest and most ambitious internment drive of a minority group since Nazi Germany, emerging from a region of totalitarian surveillance and control.

One year ago the journalist Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and never walked out. This is what happened.

An investigation into the impact of only focusing on assault rifles.

Mexico is now importing lots of its baseball talent from America.

How legends of the American music industry made millions off the work of Solomon Linda, a Zulu tribesman who wrote “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” and died a pauper.

The inside story of a Texas gun-smuggling ring.

He dreamed of educating the children in his village. But soon he learned that it was dangerous for the Rohingya to dream.

Death, ISIS, and tourism in the Atlas Mountains.

The angel saving jumpers on an infamous bridge in China.

A journey to explore the rising authoritarianism in Hungary and its weirdest fringe: the people who believe they’ve descended from Attila the Hun.

The corruption investigation that has shaken South Africa, the world’s most unequal country.

On the front lines of Bolsonaro’s war on the Amazon.

Once the bright young hope of the Latin-American left, Alan García was caught up in an epic corruption investigation.

A visit to America’s leading trade show for state violence.

A conversation between the writers Nadifa Mohamed, who left Hargeisa, and Aleksandar Hemon, who left Bosnia.

Russia is dead set on being a global power. But what looks like grand strategy is often improvisation—amid America’s retreat.

“The Farsi Island mission was a gross failure, involving issues that have plagued the Navy in recent years: inadequate training, poor leadership, and a disinclination to heed the warnings of its men and women about the true extent of its vulnerabilities.”

A leading sci-fi writer takes stock of China’s global rise.

Life in Mexico immediately after being forced to leave the U.S.