The 22-year-old camerawoman and four Afghan soldiers were blown up in July 2013.

From gas leaks to eels, James “Smelly” Kelly changed the history of the city’s underground. By Eric Grundhauser.

He’s visiting East Chicago, a Superfund site. By Nathalie Baptiste.

Beyonce

The same part of the brain that allows us to step into the shoes of others also helps us restrain ourselves. By Ed Yong.

Martin Luther King Jr. (Final Sermon, Feb. 4, 1968)

If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts. By William Deresiewicz.

They jump out of planes. They fly onto the field of battle. They run, chainsaws in hand, into 20-foot flames against the ultimate opponent: Mother Nature. By Rachel Monroe. [Autoplay]

In the midst of a national crisis of police violence, Baltimore’s state’s attorney gambled that prosecuting six officers for the death of Freddie Gray would help heal her city. She lost much more than just the case. By Wil S. Hylton.

Team Rubicon began in 2010 with a unique dual mission: providing disaster relief and giving struggling American veterans a vital sense of purpose. The program has a reputation for ignoring best practices and obliterating red tape, and it has already disrupted the aid industry. Now founder Jake Wood wants to take on the Red Cross. By Kyle Dickman.

In Laredo, Texas, paramedics help everyone and don’t ask questions. By Abe Streep.

It's a stunning look into the way the governor views the state's responsibility to protect Michigan's environment, and Michiganders' health. (July 15, 2016)

Forty years ago, six young, Florida beach boys and a shrimper named Bubba smuggled more Jamaican weed into America than the nation had ever seen. Visit some old weed pirates — and the man who eventually ended their way of life. By Jodi Cash.

Mr. Schanberg won a Pulitzer for covering the fall of the Lon Nol regime to the Khmer Rouge and inspired the film “The Killing Fields,” a recounting of his colleague’s survival during the genocide of millions. By Robert D. McFfadden. (July 9, 2016)

Juan Rivera served ten years of prison time until DNA evidence overturned his sentence. But even now, some maintain his guilt. By Matthew Syed. (Nov. 13)

“There’s nothing in the world that will bring him back,” David Stephan said of his late son, Ezekiel. “What good could possibly come out of this?” By Michael E. Miller.

Iain Duncan Smith, the former Conservative Party leader, resigned as U.K. work and pensions secretary in protest at planned cuts to welfare payments for the disabled, issuing a direct attack on the man behind them, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne. By Robert Hutton.

“If the sheriff of Baker County would not close down Copperfield's saloons, the governor told the press, then he would send his five-foot-three-inch tall, 104-pound private secretary, Miss Fern Hobbs, to do the work.” By Joe Blakely.

At least two or three of the Iron Order members sustained injuries, the club's lawyer said. By Tom McGhee and Kirk Mitchell.

Thirty young men spent months burning the bodies of the infected. A year later, many relatives and fellow countrymen still can’t forgive them. By Helene Cooper.