For the renowned travel writer, no place has proved harder to decipher than his home for the past 22 years—Hawaii.

The dusty village where Barack Obama’s father was raised had high hopes after his son was elected president. What has happened since then?

They helped overthrow Qaddafi by smuggling arms and spying on the government. Now the women of Libya are fighting for a greater voice in society.

The personal memoir of history's most famous lover reveals a misunderstood intellectual who befriended the likes of Ben Franklin.

America's longtime counterterrorism czar warns that the cyberwars have already begun—and that we might be losing.

The world's leading expert on bee behavior discovers the secrets of decision-making in a swarm.

The documentary filmmaker has become America's most surprising and provocative public intellectual.

One hundred years after the ocean liner struck an iceberg and sank, the tragedy still looms large in the popular psyche.

Foreign tourists and local preservationists are bringing stretches of the storied roadway back to life.

Spurred by rising global demand for the metal, miners are destroying invaluable rainforest in Peru's Amazon basin.