Longform

The Brooklyn Nets were built to be an unbeatable superteam of eccentric basketball superstars. Will they dominate the N.B.A. playoffs?

Amidst a historic shortage at sperm banks nationwide, a new means of donation is on the rise: Facebook groups. Elaine Byrd got involved in the community first as a moderator, then as a recipient. That’s how she met Ari Nagel, aka the Sperminator, a superdonor with nearly a hundred biological children and counting.

Archaeological discoveries are shattering scholars’ long-held beliefs about how the earliest humans organized their societies—and hint at possibilities for our own,

In my naive denial, I had wanted to see him as a hapless ne’er-do-well, a nonconformist with a streak of dishonesty. I liked to think of him as a latter-day Robin Hood. Now I knew that wasn’t true.

Scare stories on “left-wing illiberalism” display a familiar pattern.

A radical housing program in the San Francisco Bay is recognizing how women who killed their abusers deserve dignity—and a second chance.

White sharks are hunting along Cape Cod’s beaches. What will it take to keep people safe?

Mehran Karimi Nasseri was without a country, a family or a home. Then he landed at Terminal One at Charles de Gaulle Airport. The article that inspired The Terminal.

Vera Pratt moved to the island at age 70 hoping to find many years of happiness. Then she met “Psychic Angela” and her future got a whole lot more complicated.

Troughout his life, Hernández has been known as one thing: a soccer player. But last year, that identifier stopped being enough.

How morality and geography crystalize in Arkansas.

How franchises became the movie business.

Inside the right-wing romance With Hungary.

A last-gasp FEMA camp for wildfire survivors tests the government’s obligations to the displaced.

In just a few years, a Michigan woman took in millions of dollars, faking adoptions and ruining families’ lives along the way.

In late 2018, Pittsburgh’s Jewish community was mourning the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history. Then a stranger and his family landed in their midst.

An adventure on an Alaskan glacier with a new best friend.

Inside Alden Global Capital.

On the invisible labor that makes media work.

For the past two decades, the micronation of Westarctica has grown in prominence—and is now using its power for something other than Antarctic domination.

The system for testing pharmaceuticals in the US relies on contractors adhering to strict guidelines. But one of them chose profits over protocols.

Church-loving surf instructor Matthew Taylor Coleman fell into online conspiracy theories, then allegedly admitted to killing his kids to save the world. How did no one see it coming?

393 Powell Street was a peaceful home until residents started dying in brutal, mysterious ways.

American anti-trafficking groups often make impossible-to-verify claims. Now, they’re doing it in the aftermath of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.