An examination of Brazil’s immense tannery industry shows how hides from illegally deforested ranches can easily reach the global marketplace. In the United States, much of the demand for Brazilian ...

A 17,000-word exploration of the Sahara Desert, the hottest place on Earth.

In 1955, just past daybreak, a Chevrolet truck pulled up to an unmarked building. A 14-year-old child was in the back.

In the mid-20th century, Great Britain maintained a network of 1,500 underground, volunteer-staffed bunkers in case of nuclear war. Now, one man is restoring two of these abandoned shelters to ...

Tired of migrants arriving from Africa, the E.U. has created a shadow immigration system that captures them before they reach its shores, and sends them to brutal Libyan detention centers run by ...

A trip to Kingston, Jamaica to track down Bunny Wailer, a reggae legend now living “in his own private Zion.” ...

Inside an international smuggling operation.

“Before I came to Hollywood, I was confidently queer. Years of mixed messages in the industry changed that.” ...

Against all predictions, the Taliban took the Afghan capital in a matter of hours. This is the story of why and what came after, by a reporter and photographer who witnessed it all.

When people ask what I like so much about being from the Midwest, I get to tell them: I know the architecture of the wind. I know the violence it blows in and out. I like to keep my survival as simple ...

Dick Cavett, the “last great intellectual talk-show host,” at 81.

The 72-year-old is still making movies that shock.