Gangland
Jon Lee Anderson’s 2009 story on the gangs of Rio de Janeiro, where favela residents often live under the de-facto authority of a gangster and his private army.
William Finnegan grew up surfing in Hawaii, but found himself drawn to something darker: the gangs of Samoa. He returned to the Pacific to investigate the brutal underworld of American Samoa's village politics, where ancient feuds play out with modern weapons.