He captured a crumbling city and almost went down with it. Then one man saw his photos. By Dan Zak.

“Stop at nothing to get the best work that you can get. Betray, violate, cause enormous harm.” By Jonathan Goldstein. (Mar. ’13)

On the road with a man so angry he scares Democrats, too. By Jonno Rattman.

So why does it make us laugh? By Shon Arieh-Lerer.

Renegade scientist Robert Trivers is lauded as one of our greatest thinkers—despite irking academia with blunt talk and bad manners. By Matthew Hutson.

The spectacle of clueless U.S. media personalities, like George Stephanopoulos, chastising Donald Trump for getting facts wrong would be funny if it weren’t indicative of a political-media system failing the American people and what’s left of the democratic Republic, writes Robert Parry.

Here's the truth behind one man who previously everyone has ignored. By Jing Chen.

A solitary canoeist meets his fate. By Ben McGrath.

Military strategist, classical scholar, cattle rancher – and an adviser to presidents, prime ministers, and the Dalai Lama. Just who is Edward Luttwak? And why do very powerful people pay vast sums for his advice? By Thomas Meaney.

Peter Frankopan is research fellow at Worcester College, Oxford and director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research. His latest book, The Silk Roads, has been widely acclaimed as a corrective to standard accounts of world history. By Masoud Golsorkhi.

A pod of killer whales known for invading beaches to catch baby sea lions has now been spotted using sophisticated ambush tactics to catch dolphins. By Bob Holmes.

William Ruckelshaus, who this week will receive the presidential medal of freedom, says candidates are harming US’s reputation ahead of Paris climate talks. By Oliver Milman. (Nov. 23)

WANT TO keep your childs’ belief in Santa alive this Christmas? Well, new research says the answer starts and ends with the internet.

On Thursday afternoon, officials began identifying the 14 people killed.

High winds and a 31-foot tide Tuesday demolished most of the "100Stone" installation set in place at Point Woronzof in Anchorage on Saturday. 

When Alexander Chee was a struggling young writer, working as a cater-waiter for William F. and Pat Buckley.

Richard Mase, 60, also threatened to shoot any officer that entered the home to arrest him, police said.

Feng Zhang, 34, of the Broad Institute and MIT is considered a double threat to win a Nobel prize for his work on CRISPR gene editing and brain science. By Sharon Begley.

“Listening to Wolin put one in the presence of the past, a past sheltering the future, a past sheltered in the present, a past yet to be fulfilled.” By Anne Norton.