Longform

We know more about sleep than we ever have and we’ve never been worse at it.

Attracted by lax regulations, industrial agriculture has descended on a remote valley, depleting its aquifer — leaving many residents with no water at all.

As the last remaining Blockbusters shut their doors, a portrait of the customers, the staff, and what it was like as they were finally losing each other, after almost 30 years.

In her fight to end sexual abuse, the Olympic champion is challenging the very institutions she led to glory.

Buried in media scholar Jonathan Albright’s research was proof of a massive political misinformation campaign. Now he’s taking on the the world’s biggest platforms before it’s too late.

When a U.S. citizen heard he was on his own country’s drone target list, he wasn’t sure he believed it. After five near-misses, he does – and is suing the United States to contest his own execution.

Hauntings in the aftermath of an animal attack.

The first female Asian-American playwright on Broadway takes aim at identity and watches the audience squirm.

In 1982, a family disappeared from their Los Angeles home. A writer and former neighbor is still trying to put the pieces together.

He was a far-right, pro-Trump media figure looking for his big break. Then Lane Davis stabbed his father to death.

“The academy’s prestige has been shattered, probably forever,” by allegations of sexual harassment and corruption.

Thirty-four years after the Bhopal gas leak, the abandoned waste pits are spreading poison and still destroying lives.

The ultra-athlete and the doubters.

“By asking very simple questions, people have said the most astonishing things to me.”

“Why are we protecting these guys?”

A maverick war correspondent, Hemingway’s third wife was the only woman at D-Day and saw the liberation of Dachau. Her husband wanted her home in his bed.

In short order, eight gay men in Texas were murdered by teenage boys.

America’s first viral story was of a Kentucky cave explorer, Floyd Collins, and the epic effort to rescue him.

She calls claiming to be Amy Pascal, Kathleen Kennedy, or some other powerful woman in entertainment. She knows personal details about her mark as well as the woman she is impersonating.

She offers work, then sends them—photographers, make-up artists, soldiers—around the world to bilk them out of modest amounts of cash.

A profile of Mister Rogers.

The future of Tesla.

Tim Berners-Lee, the man who created the World Wide Web, has some regrets.

How 4 Mexican immigrant kids and their cheap robot beat MIT.

On millionaire Forrest Lucas and his propaganda machine.