Longform

"I'm gonna come after you with everything I have." —Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell

A profile of Cardi B.

An on-the-ground investigation reveals that the U.S.-led battle against ISIS — hailed as the most precise air campaign in history — is killing far more Iraqi civilians than the coalition has acknowledged.

A teenager faces a series of escalating life challenges.

How cops use arcane pedestrian laws to racially profile people in Jacksonville, Florida.

In 2015, two bright Mississippi State college students started dating. Months later, they were planning their life together—alongside ISIS.

How an American-born businessman became an enemy of the Russian state.

There exists a swarm of angry sports fans who maintain that they do not want to talk about Colin Kaepernick or the national anthem, and Barstool has cleared a space for them to gather and talk, mostly, about just how much they don’t want to talk about politics. They claim to be an overlooked majority — the vast market inefficiency that will richly reward anyone who will let them watch their games, memes and funny videos without having to feel bad about themselves. Barstool is their safe space.

After the relationship ended, the harassment began.

Tackling North America’s longest continuous off-road race in an ’80s VW Bug.

The dramatic imbalance in pay and power has created the conditions for abuse.

A happy ending, eventually.

On female anger in the post-Weinstein world.

The DVD is still king in Lagos’ Alaba International Market for Electronics.

Excerpted from Nollywood: The Making of a Film Empire.

Outkast’s Andre Benjamin at 42.

You gotta understand, I’ve only written one check in my life. When I was 17, they still had checkbooks, and my mom taught me how to write a check and do my balance. So I had one check on my balance, and then OutKast took off. I have not paid a bill since. People ask, What does it feel like? As humans, we want attention. We want to be validated. At the same time, it’s strange attention, and a lot of it. If you have an excess of anything, it becomes strange.

On Graham Greene, the master of “ethical ambivalence.”

Second Life was supposed to be the future of the internet, but then Facebook came along. Yet many people still spend hours each day inhabiting this virtual realm. Their stories—and the world they’ve built—illuminate the promise and limitations of online life.

How animals see.

A former schoolyard bully finds a new identity through Buddhism. A classmate wonders why he changed—and if he remembers the pain he caused.

In dozens of criminal trials, prosecutors have put the same gun in the hands of more than one defendant.

Africa’s most important economy now appears to function for the benefit of one powerful family—the Guptas.

“It was a tiny incident in itself, but it gave me a better glimpse than I had had before of the real nature of imperialism–the real motives for which despotic governments act.” Memories of a British soldier in Burma.

As America has turned away from searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, China has built the world’s largest radio dish for precisely that purpose.

In Northern Albania, vengeance is as likely a form of restitution as anything the criminal-justice system can offer.