Longform

A trip to the White House briefing room and Steve Bannon’s living room.

An interview with a Funny or Die writer after the entire editorial team was laid off.

When rescuers found Nathan Carman after seven days at sea, his mother had vanished without a trace. Did he kill her — and, years earlier, another member of his family?

A bitter legal row over a mosque in an affluent New Jersey town shows the new face of Islamophobia in the age of Trump.

Two girls connected by friendship and strange magic.

American adolescents watch much more pornography than their parents know.

A team of researchers at Columbia believe that small changes to college life could make campuses safer.

The many identities of Andrew Cunanan, Gianni Versace’s murderer.

The origins of an explorer.

The hard life and overlooked brilliance of Zane Campbell.

Forty-eight years after being attacked, a St. Petersburg, Florida woman searches for a way to cope.

Can artistry trump athleticism in figure skating?

Sitting with a group of mothers who lost a child.

A Native American family’s fight for housing security in the city and on the reservation.

Traveling the highway that could make Brazil an economic powerhouse — at the expense of the Amazon.

An indecent proposal, a crime of passion, and legends of murder in an enclave of bohemian retirees.

How a solitary trek across Antarctica became a singular test of character.

A New Orleans football legend reached the pinnacle of the sport, playing in three Super Bowls. Then he disappeared.

When Clark Rockefeller snatched his daughter during a custody dispute, what the D.A. called “the longest con I’ve seen in my professional career” came unraveled, and the trail led to bones buried in a California backyard.

“Choice is a great burden. The call to invent one’s life, and to do it continuously, can sound unendurable. Totalitarian regimes aim to stamp out the possibility of choice, but what aspiring autocrats do is promise to relieve one of the need to choose. This is the promise of “Make America Great Again”—it conjures the allure of an imaginary past in which one was free not to choose.”

The many problems with a common forensic technique called “pattern-matching” — comparisons of bite marks, tool marks, hairs, shoe prints, tire tracks, or fingerprints.

Deep Throat, unmasked.

Stewart Resnick is the biggest farmer in the United States, a fact he has tried to keep hidden while he has shaped what we eat, transformed California’s landscape, and ruled entire towns. But the one thing he can’t control is what he’s most dependent on—water.

Their boss allegedly committed sexual assault and abuse. He denied everything. They had to decide: Who do I believe? What do I do?