Longform

Mardi Fuller grew up in a world of swimming lessons and swim teams because of a mysterious death that haunted her family’s past.

A profile of Eliot Higgins, whose blog, Brown Moses, has become required reading at intelligence agencies, human rights organizations, and news outlets around the world.

A story of America in three scams.

On the GOP and the next election.

On Manson bloggers, murder fandom and being a sad, dark teen.

How Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya came to challenge her country’s dictatorship.

Stephen Glass, the most notorious fraud in journalism, decided he would live by one simple rule: Always tell the truth. Then he broke that rule.

“I never thought about ending my pregnancy. Instead, at 19, I erased the future I had imagined for myself.”

LGBTQI groups found rare freedoms online, but this year, many were shut by censors. It feels like slowly being sanded down, said one member.

Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus got cancer—and then accidentally shared his diagnosis with the public over social media. Turns out getting sick renewed his faith, healed his old friendships, and reminded him what makes life worth living.

Trees have always migrated to survive. But now they need our help to avoid climate catastrophe.

An eccentric monk’s singular scrap cathedral reveals the chaos and genius of his mind.

In Sinaloa, Mexico, women recover the bodies of missing loved ones—and cook to keep their memories of the dead alive.

Across the country, an unregulated system is severing parents from children, who often end up abandoned by the agencies that are supposed to protect them.

An occasionally collaborative profile of the director.

The historian Allen C. Guelzo believes that the Confederate general deserves a more compassionate reading.

A 90-year-old amateur archaeologist who claimed to have detonated the first atomic bomb was also one of the most prolific grave robbers in modern American history.

Hundreds of families have flocked to Colorado hoping medical marijuana will relieve their children’s epileptic seizures. This is the story of one family’s migration.

A new pro league is paying teenagers six figures to quit high school for basketball.

On sugar cane production.

Tired of migrants arriving from Africa, the E.U. has created a shadow immigration system that captures them before they reach its shores, and sends them to brutal Libyan detention centers run by militias.

Biden has a plan to make day care more affordable for parents—if the providers don’t go out of business first.

Since she first started working in the hospitality industry two decades ago, Vida Afram has cleaned nearly 60,000 hotel rooms.

A profile of the designer, who died Sunday at 41.