Longform

In America’s deadliest big city, the task of announcing each new murder falls to police spokesman T. J. Smith. One year ago, he confronted a killing like no other.

A profile of the painter.

Petra Kvitova’s long road back.

The rise and fall of CrossFit’s science crusader.

The civil liberties union group fights back.

It won’t be easy.

A controversial billion-dollar citizenship-for-sale business led the elections firm to conduct clandestine campaigns across the Caribbean, insiders say.

Catching “the world’s most prolific criminal fixer of soccer matches.”

Inside the trailer park known as Little Mexico in Norwalk, Ohio in the wake of an ICE raid that separated children from their parents.

“I’ve got these boxes of ideas and I’m starting to go through them to see if there’s any gold. “

On the unlikely friendship between Nelson Algren and the young writer during the final years of Algren’s life.

It was June of 1980 when Nelson called me breathlessly from the highway.

“Electorates turned with special venom against parties offering what was in effect a milder version of the economic consensus: free-market capitalism with a softer edge. It’s as if the voters are saying to those parties: what actually are you for?”

How the children of African immigrants came to control the destiny of teams in France and Belgium and what it says about European identity.

A strange and bittersweet ballad of kidnapping, stolen identity and unlikely stardom.

How a meteorite hunter’s obsession took him from the mountains of Colorado, to the Bundy Ranch, and eventually landed him in jail.

Every law student knows John Brady’s name. But few know the story of the bumbling murder that ended in a landmark legal ruling.

A secret network of women is working outside the law and the medical establishment to provide safe, cheap home abortions.

Past and present intermingle in various meetings and revelations with an old friend.

Carbanak’s suspected ringleader is under arrest, but $1.2 billion remains missing, and his malware attacks live on.

The hamburgers at Ollie’s Trolley are among the best in the world. With all that flavor, why aren’t there Trolleys all over the South—all over the nation, even? Maybe the world wasn’t ready for a guy like Ollie Gleichenhaus.

At 93, Jimmy Carter still spends most weekends in his hometown, preaching wise and powerful sermons. Sermons that speak to our current national crisis. That make us realize: We need Mr. Jimmy now more than ever.

The life and times of Myrtis Dightman, who broke the color barrier in professional rodeo and became one of the best bull riders who ever lived.

Three days in Wyoming as the hip-hop firebrand tends to his scars.