The Agency
An investigation into the Russian troll farm called the Internet Research Agency.
The Sound and the Fury
What we know (and don’t), more than a year after American diplomats began to suffer strange, concussion-like symptoms in Cuba.
The Final, Terrible Voyage of The Nautilus
Journalist Kim Wall was murdered aboard a homemade submarine while reporting on the designer of the vessel. Her friend and fellow journalist wanted to know what really happened to her.
A Chinese Company Has Conquered a Piece of America
Dead construction workers, a corrupt political family, and the “impossibly lucrative casino” on the island of Saipan where Chinese gamblers can game on U.S. soil.
If These Walls Could Talk
The strange history of border fortifications.
Why Silicon Valley Billionaires are Prepping for the Apocalypse in New Zealand
How an extreme libertarian tract predicting the collapse of liberal democracies – written by Jacob Rees-Mogg’s father – inspired the likes of Peter Thiel to buy up property across the Pacific
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Stanville"
The interactions of inmates and a teacher at a women's prison.
Get Schooled in the No-Nonsense Art of Survival
Learning to live in Earth’s coldest conditions.
He Predicted The 2016 Fake News Crisis. Now He's Worried About An Information Apocalypse.
“We are so screwed it’s beyond what most of us can imagine.”
Michael Idov is a screenwriter, journalist, and the former editor-in-chief of GQ Russia. His latest book is Dressed Up for a Riot.
"It just goes to show that the best thing you can possibly do as a journalist is to forget you’re a journalist, go out, have some authentic experiences, preferably fail at something really hard, and then write about that."
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Love and Ruin
An Afghanistan love story.
The House That Spied on Me
Once I made my home smart, what would it learn and whom would it tell?
A Family Left Behind
Mechelle McNair on remembering her late husband, NFL star Steve, and moving forward.
A Macedonian Tennis Racket
How a 20-year-old from the land of fake news tricked Martina Navratilova, Serena Williams, and the BBC.
Delaware's Opioid Crisis
On the ground in Wilmington.
Why ‘Black Panther’ Is a Defining Moment for Black America
On Ryan Coogler’s film.
A Morning of Terror
Chaos and heroism during a Kentucky school shooting.
What Has Really Been Going on With Markelle Fultz?
He was the consensus #1 pick in last year’s NBA draft. Then, seemingly overnight, he forgot how to shoot.
Inside the Two Years that Shook Facebook—and the World
How a confused, defensive social media giant steered itself into a disaster, and how Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix it all.
Inside North Korea's Hacker Army
The lives of programmers sent abroad by Pyongyang to make money by any means necessary.
David Grann on Longform
From squid hunters to catastrophically mistaken convictions, con men to Barry Bonds, our favorite articles by David Grann.
Everything Was Fake but Her Wealth
Ida Wood, who lived for decades as a recluse in a New York City hotel, would have taken her secrets to the grave—if her sister hadn’t gotten there first.
Justin Olsen Will Get Lost
A profile of the leader of America’s bobsled team, who is competing in the Olympics months after the death of his mentor.
When You’re a ‘Digital Nomad,’ the World Is Your Office
A global network of live-work spaces is springing up to serve this new breed of millennial wanderer.
The Zankou Chicken Murders
The creator of the California-based food chain kills his mother, sister and, finally, himself.
From Hollywood to Anaheim, he had opened a chain of fast-food rotisserie chicken restaurants that dazzled the food critics and turned customers into a cult. Poets wrote about his Zankou chicken. Musicians sang about his Zankou chicken. Now that he was dying, his dream of building an empire, 100 Zankous across the land, a Zankou in every major city, would be his four sons’ to pursue. In the days before, he had pulled them aside one by one -- Dikran, Steve, Ara, Vartkes -- and told them he had no regrets. He was 56 years old, that was true, but life had not cheated him. He did not tell them he had just one more piece of business left to do.
