In a remote corner of El Salvador, investigators uncovered the remains of a horrible crime—a crime that Washington had long denied. The villagers of El Mozote had the misfortune to find themselves in the path of the Salvadoran Army’s anti-Communist crusade. The story of the massacre at El Mozote—how it came about, and why it had to be denied—stands as a central parable of the Cold War.
Birds do it. Bees do it. Learning about the astounding navigational feats of wild creatures can teach us a lot about where we’re going, Kathryn Schulz writes.
High-speed accidents, crooked lawyers, and poor people desperate for cash—it was the kind of scheme that could have been cooked up only in the Big Easy. Patrick Radden Keefe reports.
Recent archaeological evidence suggests that the invention of agriculture was a catastrophe for human health, equality, and freedom — we should never have started farming.
Patrick Radden Keefe on the author of “The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky,” and his attempt to track down terrorists in Libya, make a film, and crack the case.
Patrick Radden Keefe on Amy Bishop, a scientist with a degree from Harvard who killed three University of Alabama colleagues two decades after shooting her brother.
John Updike, Jonathan Franzen, Denis Johnson, Roger Angell, Aharon Appelfeld, Rebecca Mead, Susan Sontag, Amitav Ghosh, and Donald Antrim respond to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
