As her country suffers historic famine, a doctor confronts militant thugs to keep thousands of Somalis alive

Attacked and arrested for investigating a Mexican crime ring, an undeterred reporter goes after another syndicate

Risking deportation, an undocumented immigrant confronts the governor in her fight for reform

A GOP governor slams those inciting anti-Muslim bigotry

A Yale law professor's strict rules inspire a broadside against American parenting

A message-minder has the temerity to tell the truth about a Pentagon controversy

An unlikely revolutionary sparks a monumental uprising with the click of a mouse

Reversing a campaign pledge, the Labor Party leader bets her job on a plan to tax greenhouse-gas emissions

The tech giant redefined innovation by thinking further ahead than he needed to, long before he had to

A tech entrepreneur wants to save the planet—by scorning environmentalists and courting failure

An enigmatic filmmaker manages to confound and thrill his fans in equal measure

A hard-charging prosecutor is working to put international justice on sure footing

A criminologist—and former cop—makes the case that lashings, whippings, and beatings can heal our justice system

A scientist suspicious of manipulated climate-change data presents his own evidence for man-made global warming

Facing huge risks and holding inconclusive intel, the president makes a gutsy call to take out bin Laden

By making himself into a lightning rod, a pugnacious coach shrewdly sets himself apart from the sideline stoics

Marked for death by the Qaddafi regime, an expat professor gives up classes to finance a revolution

A Silicon Valley investor backs a new breed of college dropouts

A detail-crazed show runner puts one of America’s hottest franchises on the line for the sake of his creative vision

An activist artist enrages the Chinese Communist Party—less with his work than with his tweets

The director of Emory University’s Center for Ethics weighs the case for modern eugenics