Longform

The story of $800 million hedge fund fraudster Boaz Manor who led the alleged $31 million Blockchain Terminal ICO after disguising his identity with a beard.

The rise of Mike Pence’s chief of staff Nick Ayers and what it reveals about post-Citizens United politics.

How the VFX industry plateaued —and where it might go from here.

The making of Blonde on Blonde in Nashville.

On the Squatty Potty and changing the way the you poop.

A profile of Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

African Elephants have been killing people, raping rhinos, and exhibiting uncharacteristically aggressive behavior. An investigation reveals deep similarities between elephants’ and humans’ reaction to childhood trauma.

On the start of the high school football season in Odessa, Texas. An adaptation published alongside the release of Bissinger’s 1990 book of the same name, which led to the movie and the show.

When her brother embraced Orthodox Judaism, the author began to question her own reality and went to Israel to find some answers.

The former first lady’s new memoir recounts her family’s trajectory from the Jim Crow South to Chicago’s South Side and her own improbable journey from there to the White House.

The inside story of death and survival as the Carr Fire’s tornado of flames stormed Redding—and changed firefighting in a warming California.

When Patricia Douglas was raped by an MGM salesman at a 1937 studio party, the 20-year-old dancer filed charges, taking on Hollywood’s most powerful institution.

How the JAP became America’s most complex Jewish stereotype.

While visiting a new church, a teenager questions her faith.

One man’s quest to ride the strangest wave.

There are people of all genders and political persuasions looking to walk the plank of the good ship Reality before they’re pushed, but I’ve never met so many so transparently trying to con as many fellow travelers on their way down.

On the friendship that made Google huge.

The enormous life of Anthony Bourdain, according to those who knew him best.

On a Missouri farm, two families worked the land side by side, until a murder shattered their American dream.

The family separation crisis that no one knows about.

“The caller reminded me I had written about her killing three decades earlier.”

Almost 90 years ago, a young anthropologist was murdered in the field. The case still speaks volumes about sexual assault and how we explain it away.

Jack Whittaker won a $314 million Powerball jackpot. This bit of luck would destroy him.