Longform

The Brooklyn Nets were built to be an unbeatable superteam of eccentric basketball superstars. Will they dominate the N.B.A. playoffs?

Climate change is bringing tourism and tension to Longyearbyen on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.

Can the International Swimming League take on the IOC and Vladimir Putin?

The Jackass takes stock of a surprisingly long, hilariously painful, and unusually influential career.

Trying to make sense of a fragmented, disparate musical tradition.

A 2018 profile of the tennis star.

Kurtis Minder finds the cat-and-mouse energy of outsmarting criminal syndicates deeply satisfying.

Chicago’s predictive policing program told a man he would be involved with a shooting, but it couldn’t determine which side of the gun he would be on. Instead, it made him the victim of a violent crime.

More than a decade ago, a prominent academic was exposed for having faked her Cherokee ancestry. Why has her career continued to thrive?

Finding meaning in the climate fight.

On the Long Island Inferno, two fathers, both with complicated pasts took it all too far. Neither man was ever the same.

After taking on gentrification in Denver, did a successful anti-gang activist become a target of law enforcement?

Mo Pinel spent a career reshaping the ball’s inner core to harness the power of physics. He revolutionized the sport—and spared no critics along the way.

Samaria Rice is the mother of Tamir, not a “mother of the movement.”

The theft of a deeply personal painting by René Magritte from a Belgian museum was a national tragedy. Now, an investigation points to a tragedy greater still.

During the second world war, Chinese merchant seamen helped keep Britain fed, fueled and safe – and many gave their lives doing so. But from late 1945, hundreds of them who had settled in Liverpool suddenly disappeared. Now their children are piecing together the truth

Imagine a community of great possibilities and prosperity built by Black people for Black people. Places to work. Places to live. Places to learn and shop and play. Places to worship. Now imagine it being ravaged by flames.

A tale of cannabis boom and bust.

The inside story of a cartel’s deadly assault on a Mexican town near the Texas border—and the U.S. drug operation that sparked it.

In the north Bronx, a small group of elite Ethiopian runners struggle to survive. The persecution they fled was far more harrowing.

The Havana Syndrome first affected spies and diplomats in Cuba. Now it has spread to the White House.

A recent raid in Italy involving rare Chilean species highlights the growing scale of a black market in the thorny plants.

In October 2006, a four-year-old from Corpus Christi named Andrew Burd died mysteriously of salt poisoning. His foster mother, Hannah Overton, was charged with capital murder, vilified from all quarters, and sent to prison for life. But was this churchgoing young woman a vicious child killer? Or had the tragedy claimed its second victim?