Seven Days of Heroin
Sixty journalists cover an ordinary week in an epidemic.
‘The Way to Survive It Was to Make A’s’
They were the first black boys to integrate the South’s elite prep schools. They drove themselves to excel in an unfamiliar environment. But at what cost?
What Does an Innocent Man Have to Do to Go Free? Plead Guilty.
A case in Baltimore — in which two men were convicted of the same murder and cleared by DNA 20 years later — shows how far prosecutors will go to preserve a conviction.
Convincing a Murderer Not to Die
Christian Longo brutally murdered his familyand then posed in Mexico as a New York Times reporter named Michael Finkel. From death row, Longo asked the real Finkel to attend his execution.
The Risk of Nuclear War with North Korea
Could Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump goad each other into a devastating confrontation?
Searching For Help
She turned to Google for help getting sober. Then she had to escape a nightmare.
Disaster Aversion
The quest to control hurricanes.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Sing, Unburied, Sing [Excerpt]"
Southern crimes and nightmares; an excerpt from Ward's latest novel.
The First White President
“The foundation of Donald Trump’s presidency is the negation of Barack Obama’s legacy.”
Theater of War
Bill Brookman has traveled to some of the world’s most dangerous places to disarm militias and negotiate with gangs. Bill Brookman is a clown.
The Resegregation of Jefferson County
What one Alabama town’s attempt to secede from its school district tells us about the fragile progress of racial integration in America.
Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah is an essayist. Her latest piece is “A Most American Terrorist: The Making of Dylann Roof.”
“I remember feeling like ‘you’re playing chess with evil, and you gotta win.’ Because this is the most terrible thing I’d ever seen. And I was so mad. I still get so mad. Words aren’t enough. I’m angry about it. I can’t do anything to Dylann Roof, physically, so this is what I could do.”
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Christina Tosi Has a Cookie
A profile of the baker behind Milk Bar, the place that gave us crack pie, cereal milk, and bagel bombs.
How Does a 10-Year-Old Boy End Up Hanging to Death?
A tragic suicide from 1989 may have been something even more sinister.
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Hanging
The mysterious case of the boy in the barn.
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Presuming
Fellow deputies and the questions not asked.
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Connecting
How suspicions passed from woman to woman.
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Confronting
A quest to ask K.W. the hard questions, at last.
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Hurting
Who abused Josh Klaver – and who know about it?
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Reckoning
A closed case, a search for peace.
The Socialist Experiment
A new-society vision in Jackson, Mississippi.
How Kevin Smith Makes Big Business Out of Niche Audiences
The slacker auteur reinvents himself.
The First Social Media Suicide
A teenager in a dreary suburb of Paris live-streams her own suicide—and acquires a morbid kind of digital celebrity.
If Unilever Can’t Make Feel-Good Capitalism Work, Who Can?
The consumer giant looks to social responsibility in the age of big business.
The Trials of a Muslim Cop
Bobby Hadid joined the NYPD after 9/11, to protect his new country. But when he questioned the force’s tactics, his life began to erode.
The Ballad of Colton Harris-Moore
The story of the “Barefoot Bandit,” a teenage fugitive on the run.
Teaching White Students Showed Me the Difference Between Power and Privilege
“I was the wealthiest, most powerful person Brown knew, and I had sixty-seven dollars in my banking account.”
The Longform Guide to Fire
A collection of picks on arsonists, fire fighters and more.
The Incarcerated Women Who Fight California’s Wildfires
By choice, for less than $2 an hour, the female inmate firefighters of California work their bodies to the breaking point. Sometimes they even risk their lives.
Hell and High Water
A 2016 investigation into why Houston wasn’t ready for the next big hurricane.
Ken Burns's American Canon
A profile of the documentary filmmaker.
