Longform

Can hospitals learn to better treat Deaf patients?

A profile of the actress.

“It was a clusterfuck of clusterfucks.”

Neurosurgeon Christopher Duntsch left a trail of bodies and paralyzed patients across Texas.

A profile of Paul Manafort, “a great normalizer of corruption” who “weakened the capital’s ethical immune system.”

A dispatch from North Carolina.

Hucksters claim that drinking a few drops of hydrogen peroxide diluted in a glass of water will cure almost anything.

Barack Obama and a tradition of letter-reading.

On trying to figure out what’s next.

Inside a sleazy FBI sting involving diet clinics, fitness models, money laundering, and a supposed plot to hire a hitman.

How an activist investor does business (and ruins lives).

On the trail in Texas with Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke.

The Bashar al-Assad regime’s indiscriminate air strikes have terrorized civilians for years. Now a small band of activist-entrepreneurs is building a sensor network that listens for warplanes and warns people when and where the bombs will fall.

At 18, Katie Stubblefield lost her face. At 21, she became the youngest person in the U.S. to undergo the still experimental procedure to get a new one.

The improbable rise of Dallas Wings star Liz Cambage.

A profile of a pig.

Pinned down in deep snow and running out of food, veteran thru-hiker Stephen “Otter” Olshansky scraped his way to a campground latrine, holed up inside, and prayed for help to arrive.

Is the Chinese government behind one of the boldest art-crime waves in history?

A European vacation, a quietly crumbling marriage.

World-famous Houston surgeon Bud Frazier spent decades developing a revolutionary device that could save millions of lives.

On the ubiquity of forest fires.

Almond growing in California is a $7.6 billion industry that wouldn’t be possible without the 30 billion bees (and hundreds of human beekeepers) who keep the trees pollinated — and whose very existence is in peril.