Kidnapping

The Haunted House

By Sophie Haigney,

What privacy looks like on Google Street View

Click Here to Kill

By Brian Merchant,

The dark world of online murder markets

The Long Rescue

By Sonia Faleiro,

A man’s search for his kidnapped children

Con Voyage

By Wolfgang Bauer, Sarah Pybus,

From Crossing the Sea, by Wolfgang Bauer. In 2014, Bauer, a German journalist for Die Zeit, traveled undercover with Syrian refugees on a boat headed from Egypt to Greece. His…

Gateway to Freedom

By Eric Foner,

The origins of the Underground Railroad

Bad Romance

By Jesse Barron,

One genre and a billion happy endings

Lakshmi’s Story

By Vaishali Raode, Translated by P. G. Joshi, R. Raj Rao

By Vaishali Raode, from Mi Hijra, Mi Lakshmi (“I Am a Hijra, I Am Lakshmi”), an account of the life of Lakshmi Narayan Tripathi, a transgender-rights activist in the Indian…

Calderón’s war

By Cecilia Ballí,

The gruesome legacy of Mexico's antidrug campaign

The French concoction

Translated by Elena Ciocoiu

Outliers

By Harper’s Staff,

The sicario

By Charles Bowden,

A Juárez hit man speaks

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