Longform

The haunting of 657 Boulevard in Westfield, New Jersey.

How words kept the author’s grandparents connected during the Second World War.

Searching for the star behind Dlisted.

The predatory trainer may have just taken down USA Gymnastics. How did he deceive so many for so long?

Stan Lee supercharged Marvel Comics into one of the most important cultural forces on the planet. But how much credit does he really deserve?

Inside the effort to prevent migrant deaths at the US-Mexico border.

Richard Carr, a retired psychologist who had long dreamed of sailing around the world, was in the middle of the Pacific when he started sending frantic messages that said pirates were boarding his boat. Two thousand miles away in Los Angeles, his family woke up to a nightmare: he might be dying alone, and there was almost nothing they could do about it.

Searching for answers after unexplained brain injuries afflicted dozens of American diplomats and spies.

The true story of M Company: from Fort Dix to Vietnam in 50 days.

The inspiring life and mysterious death of NBA player Bison Dele.

A profile of Bonnie “Prince” Billy.

The company has been battling its store owners for years, using tactics that include planting hidden cameras and and tailing franchisees in unmarked vehicles. It seems to have found a new tool: U.S. immigration authorities.

The story of a lynching in rural CO in 1900, while hundreds watched, done with the complicity of press and cops, and why it still resonates today.

It’s dangerous to blame the decline of one species on a single predator. We humans like to do it anyway.

Pope Benedict XVI’s post-retirement presence in the Vatican has set the stage for a conflict that threatens to split the Catholic Church into two.

Successful SoundCloud rapper. Genre-bending artist. You may or may not know Post Malone. Here are some little-known facts that will help you get to know him.

An arrangement of convenience in early 20th century Alaska.

The death of a submissive man-pup and the scrotal silicone injection that killed him.

Two people went for a hike on the Appalachian Trail. Only one made it out.

New research is zeroing in on a biochemical basis for the placebo effect — possibly opening a Pandora’s box for Western medicine.

On the world’s (then) largest online community.

Deliberate isolation. Petty feuds. Constant turmoil. The Manchester United manager wouldn’t have it any other way.

Inside Tesla’s factory, a medical clinic designed to ignore injured workers.

Ezra Miller is the gender-bending, goat delivering Hollywood star of the future.