Longform

In 2003, a man robbed a bank with a bomb around his neck. It exploded shortly thereafter, taking his life and leaving authorities to try to figure out who had put it there.

“A quarantine facial-hair experiment led me to a deep consideration of my Blackness.”

What’s the future of NYC real estate?

The history of civilian internment camps.

What I learned about rich people, conspiracy, “genius,” Ghislaine, stand-up comedy, and evil from 2,000 phone calls.

In 1989, USC had a depth chart of a dozen linebackers. Five have died, each before age 50.

In 1990, there was no star bigger than the man born Robert Van Winkle. But just as quickly as he became the bestselling rapper the world had ever seen, he became a pariah.

The ACLU attorney works as a representative in every sense of the word.

Nelson Cruz’s family was so sure Judge ShawnDya Simpson would free him, they brought a change of clothes to his hearing. Then everything took an unexpected turn.

Just before his first NBA game, an 18-year-old LeBron James was asked about the pressure of controlling the combined fortunes of a city, major corporations, and the league. “I can handle it,” he said.

Inside an infected White House.

The Badger State is designed to keep Republicans in power, at the expense of the minority vote.

The famous subreddit started as a forum for one man to ask about his workplace behavior. Seven years later, it’s become a platform where millions of people discuss good, bad, and everything in between.

Forget about the ticks. A pattern of harm follows “Lyme-literate medical doctors.”

It’s a sham known as “sewer service.” When process servers regularly fail to deliver summonses, it leads to to automatic evictions for unwitting tenants.

A teenage clerk dialed 911. How should the brothers who own CUP Foods pay for what happened next?

How the seizure of Europe’s largest heroin shipment created bloody fallout throughout the world—and sparked still-raging political corruption scandals in Turkey, Greece, and the Middle East.

The Puerto Rican reggaetonero has come to dominate global pop on his own terms.

“Uncertainty, it has been shown, is more painful than certain physical pain.”

How dexamethasone corrupted mountaineering.

How COVID-19 ravaged Minnesota.

How a middle-class jock from a Texas border town became La Barbie, one of the most ruthless and feared cartel leaders in Mexico.

Over the next decade, the number of elderly homeless Americans is projected to triple.

Nine days in Wuhan.