Like all good fairy tales, the inside story of Disney animation’s stunning comeback after years of box-office disappointments features princesses, princes, and villains, as well as love, laughter, and tears.

A riveting war crimes trial in Sierra Leone is closely watched by a healing nation.

Brazilian artist Vik Muniz embarks on a new project, collaborating with recyclers who work in the world’s largest landfill as he constructs their portraits entirely out of garbage.

Over years of civil war, it’s estimated that over 150,000 women have been raped in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This harrowing document includes direct interviews with current and former soldiers involved in the policy of systematic sexual terrorism.

Members of the Industrial Workers of the World, now in their eighties and nineties, reminisce about their union’s heyday—the textile strikes, free-speech battles, life in the lumber camps—in this meticulously researched history of the Wobblies.