Longform

For years he used fake identities to charm women out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Then his victims banded together to take him down.

On mental health and professional sports.

What should a father teach his sons?

Officers can lie to juries or brutally beat civilians and still keep their jobs.

Five stories about Nick Kyrgios, tennis’ misunderstood genius.

In the 1980s, Billy Ray Bates, once dubbed “the Legend,” drank himself out of the NBA and ended up playing in the Philippines. For a few wild years, his legend grew—both on the court and in the bars.

Nakesha Williams resisted help from social workers, friends and acquaintances, some who only knew her as a homeless woman, and others who knew of her past.

A profile of director Guillermo del Toro.

As a nation unwinds, Leopoldo López, the opposition’s most prominent leader, sits under house arrest and contemplates what might still be possible.

Inside the disturbing “cult” of young acolytes that catapulted conductor James Levine’s career.

How extreme weather, which displaced more than a million people last year, could reshape America.

Malls were supposed to die. Instead they’re just being reimagined (again).

An interview with Solange.

A theater as the scene of escalating events.

A feat of elegant design wowed elite architects and promised to bring education to poor children in Nigeria. Then it collapsed.

The life story of Travis the chimp and the family of tow truck operators who raised him like a human child before it all ended in tragedy.

Taurus sold almost a million handguns that can potentially fire without anyone pulling the trigger. The government won’t fix the problem. The NRA is silent.

A 7-part investigation into the true nature of Long Island politics, through the story of street tough-turned-power broker Gary Melius.

The inside story of how an Ivy League food scientist turned shoddy data into viral studies.

The idealistic entrepreneur turns wild experiences into viral videos into actual science into a going business concern.

With the suburb’s teens a year after the death of Michael Brown.

He was a college freshman partying in Manhattan for the first. He ran into a woman he knew from college, got separated from his friends, and ended up at a house party full of strangers. By the next morning, his body would be dumped in a Brooklyn driveway. Fifteen years later, the “circumstances of his death remain muddled.”

The profits and controversy of posthumous celebrity.