Nadya Labi

Thursday, August 4
/ / Jan 2005

How incest and rape go unpunished in the Amish community.


Friday, July 15
/ / Jul 2004

Inside a transport service for “problem” children:

In his first year of business, [Rick Strawn] escorted eight teens to behavior modification schools. Since then, his company has transported more than 700 kids between the ages of 8 and 17.


Monday, January 10
/ / May 2007

On gay life in Saudi Arabia.


Wednesday, October 20
/ / Oct 2010
via via @longreads

Li Dao, a young Minnesota nurse, appeared in suicide chat rooms, contacted the most desperate, and made pacts to die with them via webcam. After some in the forum caught on, Dao disappeared; or rather, Dao had never existed at all. She was a middle-aged man. And he may have encouraged and witnessed dozens of live suicides.


Tuesday, October 5
/ / Nov 2009

If your ex-spouse takes your child and hightails it abroad, the legal system often isn’t on your side. So what can you do? One option: hire a former Army ranger named Gus Zamora to take back your kid.


Wednesday, June 2
/ / July 2006

In the wake of 9/11, terrorist networks moved their recruitment and training efforts online, giving birth to Jihad-geeks like Irhabi_007.


Friday, May 21
/ / August 2007

He was an 18 year old Marine bound for Iraq. She was a high school senior in West Virginia. They grew intimate over IM. His dad also started contacting her.  No one was who they claimed to be and it led to a murder.