Longform

Three teenagers, their futures, the concept of alternate realities.

On the promise of 23-year-old Nicholas Cleves, who died in the bike path attack in New York.

On the sanitized wonderland that is Singapore.

I played a father for a 12-year-old with a single mother. The girl was bullied because she didn’t have a dad, so the mother rented me. I’ve acted as the girl’s father ever since. I am the only real father that she knows.

How New York City responds to terrorism.

Why didn’t visionary baller Joe Caldwell become a star?

What really happened on November 8, 2016.

The film executive hired private investigators, including ex-Mossad agents, to track actresses and journalists.

On the thriving small town of Orange City, Iowa and what it can teach us about what it means when Americans decide to leave home or stay put.

With key U.S.D.A. programs—from food stamps to meat inspection, to grants and loans for rural development, to school lunches—under siege, the agency’s greatest problem is that even the people it helps most don’t know what it does.

The role of a writer in 2017.

There’s no telling how many guns there are in America—and when one gets used in a crime, no way for the cops to connect it to its owner. The only place the police can turn for help is a Kafkaesque agency in West Virginia, where, thanks to the gun lobby, computers are illegal and detective work is absurdly antiquated. On purpose.

The travel forum removed warnings about rapes and injuries at Mexico resorts, tourists say.

How one of the world’s top conductors became ensnared in a WWI-era scandal.

When she died in 1952, author Margaret Wise Brown left the rights to Goodnight Moon to a nine-year-old neighbor named Albert Clarke. The book became a classic. Clarke, living entirely off the royalties, became a deadbeat.

The story of Tania Joya, the ex-wife of a jihadist from Texas.

A profile of the Lady Bird director.

There the man in the shorts—later identified as a Russian agent using the alias Richard Murphy of New Jersey—handed Michael Zottoli from Seattle two items: a flash memory card and a bag that held $150,000 in cash.

Within nine months they’d both be behind bars.

On the relative plausibility of impossible beings.

Painful memories and strange reactions plague a man's series of online dates.

How it feels to lose $30,000 in Bitcoin.

A profile of the (very emotional) pop singer.

The life and death of OR4, the patriarch of Oregon’s reintroduced wolves.