Longform

It all started with an unclaimed lottery ticket worth millions, soon revealing a string of unlikely winners that pointed to an inside job. But who had rigged the lottery? And how?

A profile of the chairman of Fox News.

Coming to terms with eating disorders.

Why an expert in counterterrorism became a beat cop.

How a senseless double murder in Florida exposed the rise of an organized fascist youth movement in the United States.

Bill Benter did the impossible: He wrote an algorithm that couldn’t lose at the track. Close to a billion dollars later, he tells his story for the first time.

With upheaval looming, a college tennis player considers his love, his training, and his own agency.

To understand the rise of Donald Trump is to understand his mentor, Roy Cohn — and the New York City establishment that aided and abetted him.

Most of the fish we eat die by asphyxiation. But there’s a better way, both for the fish and those who eat them.

All Artur Samarin wanted to be was a normal American teenager. So that’s what he became.

At home with the beloved writer and illustrator.

The inside story of the first homicide in America’s most secure prison.

Riding along with the cycling lawyer who’s trying to change that.

A new historical inquiry into the murder of Elwood Higginbotham offers a chance to confront the past.

How a Silicon Valley team helped rebuild his distinctive robotic sound.

He’d sold his company, chartered a yacht, and set off with his model girlfriend to see the world. Finally, it seemed, Chris Smith was living the life he’d always wanted. But back home there was trouble: missing money, unraveling secrets, and a sudden question. Where the hell was Chris Smith, really?

Five Mexican fishermen head out with enough supplies for several days. They’re gone for nine months. A story of survival in the South Pacific.

Twenty-five years after her career-making album, Liz Phair is still writing songs first and foremost for herself.

An investigation into a social media-fueled gang war in Detroit.

The Red Zone is part pharmacy, part killing field and part music studio where gang members peddled drugs, fought rivals and shot rap videos on street corners.

How a tiny protest at the University of Nebraska turned into a proxy war for the future of campus politics.

It’s worse than you thought.

Jimmy Smith-Kramer, a basketball legend on the Quinault Nation reservation, was 20 when he was mowed down by a white man in a pickup truck. The decision not to charge a hate crime, and recent talk of a plea deal, has re-opened ancient wounds.

Live from the World Series of Poker.

An investigation into how the NYPD responds to sexual assault cases.